"It seems so long ago that he was last afraid of anything. Seventeen, was he then? Eighteen? Sometimes he thinks he's missing a lot by being like this - fear gives life a fillip. He wonders how it is he lost it all, and what there is - if anything - ever to bring it back."

-- Cornell Woolrich

#Fear Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“The secret to creative freedom is letting go of our habitual certainities.”
“An oil crisis looms, prices are spiking - and our president is extolling algae. After Solyndra, Keystone and promises of seaweed in their gas tanks, Americans sense a president so ideologically antipathetic to fossil fuels - which we possess in staggering abundance - that he is utterly unserious about the real world of oil in which the rest of us live.”
“Normative ethics, pursued as a free, systematic, and critical attempt to find moral truth, regardless of religious and other authorities, is a rather new adventure. Let's wait and see what will happen!”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Every life, I think, has that potential because I believe each life is a gift of God... because God is love.”

Source : "Catching up with Mother Dolores Hart as the Hollywood star-turned-Catholic nun reflects on her book tour, the possibility of a movie and Pope Francis". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.
“What I have been trying to remind people of for the past 40 years is that you canâ€™t operate an entire conventional system, whether itâ€™s economics, business or the way we live and surround ourselves, what we eat, without recognizing that there are severe negative externalities that are not being accounted for.”
“The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.”

Source : Aesop (2009). “Aesop's Fables”, p.251, The Floating Press
“... being a feminist means that you believe in civil rights and social justice.”
“Leadership is the name that people use to make sense out of complex events and the outcomes of events they otherwise would not be able to explain. In other words, people attribute leadership to certain individuals who are called leaders because people want to believe that leaders cause things to happen rather than have to explain causality by understanding complex social forces or analyzing the dynamic interaction among people, events, and environment.”

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