"There are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is so steep you canâ€™t bear to look. Not even love can rescue a person from that. Still, enveloped in the twilight coming from the west, there she was, watering the plants with her slender, graceful hands, in the midst of a light so sweet it seemed to form a rainbow in the transparent water she poured."

-- Banana Yoshimoto

#Sweet Quotes #Twilight Quotes #Heart Quotes

“Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. I mean we consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and services beyond what we're producing.As long as we consume more than we produce, and we trade away little pieces of the country daily, they're going to own something. Now, they can't run from American assets. I mean every day the rest of the world is going to have about two billion more of American assets than we have, as long as they sell us these goods.”
“It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle”

Source : Ashley Montagu (1958). “The Cultured Man”, Cleveland : World Publishing Company
“Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.”
“Originally a stylist took terrible dresses and did everything she could to make them wonderful. Now, you create an image. It's much more specialized.”
“News is not a game show. You don't win a car if you happen to be right.”

Source : "John Oliver Slams Media’s Edward Snowden Speculation: ‘Stop Guessing, News Is Not A Game Show’", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2013.
“Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you.”
“You can create your own miracle, but you do it by never looking past all the little steps along the way.”
“A desert's a stupid place to put a river.”

Source : Paolo Bacigalupi (2008). “Pump Six and Other Stories”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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