"Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be."

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Source : Bergen Evans (1963). “The word-a-day vocabulary builder”, Ballantine Books

Bergen Evans

#Mean Quotes #Successful Quotes #Adjusting Quotes

“I'm not single, I'm just wait for my girlfriend to quit playing hide and seek.”
“I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the star's blink, were nothing but pauses and syllables, scattered phrases from that dialogue. What word could it be, of which I was only a syllable? Who speaks the word? To whom is it spoken?”
“This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread.”
“We automatically give to each person we meet, but we choose what we give. Our words, our actions, must consciously set the stage for the life we wish to lead.”

Source : Marlo Morgan (1991). “Mutant message down under”, Bookpeople
“In the end, I think the relationships that survive in this world are the ones where two people can finish each other's sentences. Forget drama and torrid sex and the clash of opposites. Give me banter any day of the week.”
“The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation.”
“You always want your films to go as far as they can.”

Source : "Sally Hawkins: 'You think adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be capable'". Interview With Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2011.
“The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination.”

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