"Sometimes reactions can be quite surprising: readers like things that you, the author, feel you've barely gotten away with; or they dislike one of the parts you secretly think is one of your little gems."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Thinking Quotes #Littles Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do. The black planes will take off into the night air and the night winds, sliding past and behind each other, zooming, turning and turning in the redness of the winds, living, never to return.”
“Elvis, stop dat! You know it is taboo to whistle at night. You will attract a spirit.”
“The changing economic situation, the changing global market means it is understandable that employers are constantly raising the bar. It is challenging the education system to come up with ever higher standards to meet the expectation of employers.”
“We have to be plumbers, electricians, construction engineers, or workers, on the space station, but at the same time running a laboratory, being scientists, being the best laboratory assistants we can be. It's all in a bundle; it's very exciting, it's a lot of fun.”

Source : "Rocket To ISS Lifts Off With American, Russian, Canadian Astronauts" by Clara Moskowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2012.
“Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.”

Source : "Goodwill Ambassador". www.unicef.org. May 26, 2012.
“Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuits question, I am confident I will be the answer.”
“We must never forget to pray, and to ask God to remember us when He is arranging things, so that we too may feel safe and have no anxiety about what is going to happen.”

Source : Johanna Spyri (1993). “Heidi Dievčatko Z Hôr”, p.200, Wordsworth Editions
“What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?”

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