"It's gonna be okay," I said. It was the first time in a long time that I believed it. "It will."

-- Sarah Dessen

#Long Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Said Quotes

“The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak.”
“With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.”
“Some charities treat donors like cash machines. Until now there hasn't been any effective way for them to provide a more personal or interactive giving experience.”

Source : "Q&A: Ben Rattray of Change.org". Interview with Dana Mattioli, www.wsj.com. August 21, 2007.
“Donâ€™t sit down in the middle of the woods. If youâ€™re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page.”
“Boys are very basic. If we get food, alcohol, and maybe cigarettes and occasionally some sex, we're pretty cool. We're pretty chilled. What you see is what you get. It's not so many layers. Women are a little bit more complicated, which is why we keep falling in love with you all again and again and again and again.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.”

Source : "PPS No. 23". Memo by George Kennan, en.wikisource.org. February 28, 1948.
“There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.”

Source : Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.6, Modern Library
“An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles. It is rather primarily a lived and historically changing set of distinctive social practices. It is in these practices that 'content' is generated, debated, and transformed via certain distinctive ways of thinking, talking, valuing, acting, and, often, writing and reading.”

Source : James Paul Gee (2014). “What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. Second Edition”, p.21, Macmillan

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