"A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift."

-- Laurie Colwin

#Giving Quotes #Cooking Quotes #Simplest Quotes

“I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.”
“A wide range of quotations are necessary for the repertoire of a well-rounded speaker. Quotations are able to illustrate in a few words what is difficult to explain in many.”
“To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back.”
“How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.”

Source : Margaret Drabble (2013). “A Summer Bird-Cage”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Donald Trump has no intention to step away without examining all relationships that we have. His intent is to relook at the way we are organized globally, where the US is sort of expected to be a global leader, but relook at these alliances and these charters that we are under to make sure that they are still viable for the 21st century. It doesn't mean that President Trump comes into office and NATO goes away.”
“We [Americans] really need a system that comprehensively looks at the fact that we need these workers in the United States, we need to be able to provide a pathway to citizenship. We need to be able to allow them to be here legally and to do the work that they are doing and that we need.”
“Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.”
“In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.”

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