"I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn't coming back. And this one fact seemed to point to other facts and others still: Love frays and humans fail, time passes, eras end."

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Source : Karen Thompson Walker (2012). “The Age of Miracles: A Novel”, p.219, Random House

Karen Thompson Walker

#Father Quotes #Storm Quotes #Eras Quotes

“But pain is hard to put into words and in life there is always pain. Itâ€™s as natural as birth or death. Pain makes us who we are, it teaches us and tames us, it can destroy and it can save.”

Source : Anna McPartlin (2008). “Pack Up the Moon”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
“For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.”

Source : Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan (2012). “Convection in Porous Media”, p.135, Springer Science & Business Media
“I think the Tea Party has brought important issues to the table.”
“When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer.”
“Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.”
“Humility makes great men twice honorable”
“So here's the flash: Continuing to live life as a victim of circumstance, forever focusing on what's wrong with everything and everybody, will never, ever, bring the life desired. It will only bring one thing: more of whatever it is we're wanting so desperately to change.”

Source : Lynn Grabhorn (2009). “Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting: The Astonishing Power of Feelings”, p.44, Hampton Roads Publishing
“I think if the copyright regime focuses on the people we are supposed to be helping, the artists and creators, and builds a system that gives them the freedom to choose and to protect and to be rewarded for their creativity, then we will have the right focus.”

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