"Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?"

-- Howard Nemerov

#Mind Quotes #Facts Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“The thing I like the most about Sachin is his intensity. After being in the game for so long, he still has the same desire to do well for India in any international match. I tell you what, this man is a legend.”
“The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.”
“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”
“There are major challenges, when it comes to making a film in the Arctic. When you're filming wildlife and that wildlife doesn't necessarily take direction, you can spend a lot of time waiting, where you're debating whether or not you should press the record button because it costs a lot of money.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“When I was growing up, I was teased for being too skinny. I went to summer camp when I was 11. I wore shorts, and the nurse said to me, in front of all my friends, that I was anorexic and that she had to monitor me to make sure I was eating. Because of that trauma, I never wore short pants or short skirts until I was 20.”
“You donâ€™t know what goes on in anyoneâ€™s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a personâ€™s life, youâ€™re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you canâ€™t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a personâ€™s life, youâ€™re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything.”
“When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings.”
“My own belief is that being gay is a regularly occurring nonpathological minority variant in the human condition, and that an appropriate analogy is left-handedness, which also, as it happens, used to be regarded as some sort of defect in a normatively right-handed humanity.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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