"If you don't mind me saying, Mr. Hale. She's a keeper." He pointed in Kat's direction."

-- Ally Carter

#Mind Quotes #Hale Quotes #Keepers Quotes

“If we can have drones, we can have brown people on TV, and the world won't end! We need to catch up. We are painfully behind.”

Source : "Gabrielle Union on Diversity on TV: ''We Are Painfully Behind'" by Molly Langmuir, www.elle.com. January 9, 2015.
“It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be thirty; more touching to be forty; tragic to be fifty; and heartbreaking to be sixty. As to seventy, as to eighty, one would feel as one did during the last dance of a ball, tired but fey in the paling dawn, desperately making the most of each bar of music before one went home to bed.”
“It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.”
“When provoked, the itsy-bitsy invertebrates known as tardigrades can suspend their metabolism. In that state, they can survive temperatures of... 73 K for days on end, making them hardy enough to endure being stranded on Neptune. So the next time you need space travelers with the right stuff, you might want to choose yeast and tardigrades, and leave your astronauts, cosmonauts, and taikonauts at home.”
“Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.”
“I want to dominate a little more, just be a level beyond everyone else. I expect that from myself.”
“The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the 'creativity of language,' that is, the speaker's ability to produce new sentences, sentences that are immediately UNDERSTOOD by other speakers although they bear no physical resemblance to sentences which are 'familiar.”
“When politicians & economists understand we live in a finite world & act accordingly then a better future has a chance”

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