"There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground."

-- Edward Gibbon

#Writing Quotes #Air Quotes #Castles Quotes

“About 80% of women diagnosed with breast cancer do not have a single relative with breast cancer.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I donâ€™t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while I await injunctions from the light or the dark; I wait for shapeliness limned, or dissolution. Is paradise due or narrowly missed until another thousand years? I wait in a blue hour and faraway noise of hammering, and on a page a poem begun, something about to be dispersed, something about to come into being.”

Source : Li-Young Lee (1990). “The City in which I Love You: Poems”, p.14, BOA Editions, Ltd.
“Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.”
“I think my ideal man would speak many languages. He would speak Ibo and Yoruba and English and French and all of the others. He could speak with any person, even the soldiers, and if there was violence in their heart he could change it. He would not have to fight, do you see? Maybe he would not be very handsome, but he would be beautiful when he spoke. He would be very kind, even if you burned his food because you were laughing and talking with your girlfriends instead of watching the cooking. He would just say, 'Ah, never mind'.”
“Well, my opinion is that real change occurs through deep interpersonal experiences. Others will also say deep spiritual experiences.”
“God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.”
“I regard myself as a woman who has seen much of life.”
“In my view, the state should be active and work in cooperation with private businesses to spur growth that's sustainable and inclusive. The policy process is about co-creating and co-shaping of markets, creating new opportunities for business investment - and negotiating a better deal for the public too.”

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