"Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change."

-- John Walters

#Change Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Is it a different New York since Lou Reed died? Itâ€™s been a different New York since I saw him in his sweatpants at the Cozy Soup â€˜nâ€™ Burger.”
“We need to be skeptical of utopianists who offer unreliable totalistic visions of other worlds and strive to take us there. We need some ideals, but we also need to protect ourselves from the miscalculations and misadventures of visionaries.”
“When you have lived longer in this world and outlived the enthusiastic and pleasing illusions of youth, you will find your love and pity for the race increase tenfold, your admiration and attachment to a particular party or opinion fall away altogether.”

Source : Joseph Henry Shorthouse (1902). “John Ingelsant [by J.H. Shorthouse].”
“Maybe the best hasnâ€™t happened yet.”
“You can create a good impression on yourself by being right . . . but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.”

Source : Michael Frayn (2015). “Sweet Dreams”, p.90, Faber & Faber
“By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it go. Perhaps it was nothing more than the two doughnuts expanding in her stomach full of milk, but Amy felt a heaviness begin, a familiar turning of some inward tide. As they drove over the bridge the sun seemed to move from a cheerful daytime yellow to an early-evening gold; painful how the gold light hit the riverbanks, rich and sorrowful, drawing from Amy some longing, a craving for joy.”
“Ive no regrets. You take responsibility for your actions.”
“You can split atoms, but you can't split true love.”

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