"Something has happened, hasn't it? ... It's like being up close to something so large you don't even see it. Even now, I'm not sure I can. But I know it's there."

-- Ian Mcewan

#Not Sure Quotes

“What possibilities exist here? What is presenting itself to me IN THIS MOMENT that I can use? In a very real sense, it's meditation in motion, the practical application of an esoteric practice. And it relies on the acceptance of serendipity. Serendipity, the effect of accidentally discovering something fortunate”
“If possible, try to talk good about others, always. By telling good about another person, you will help yourself and another person.”
“A first killing is like your first love. You never forget it,”
“I cherish my work and all of my readers.”
“A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.”

Source : Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1866). “Principles of Education, Drawn from Nature and Revelation, and Applied to Female Education in the Upper Classes”, p.397
“Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.”

Source : Matthew Fox (2006). “A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity”, p.50, Simon and Schuster
“I would happily storm hell in the company of these troops ... how strongly they have demonstrated to the world that free men and women can fight like the dickens.”
“Of course, such judicial misconstruction theoretically can be cured by constitutional amendment. But the period of gestation of a constitutional amendment, or of any law reform, is reckoned in decades usually; in years, at least. And, after all, as the Court itself asserted in overruling the minimum-wage cases, it may not be the Constitution that was at fault.”

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