"When in the evening we are alone with our most existential thoughts, it is then that we come face to face with the most precious truths that we discover in our brief existence in this world. Just before fatigue envelopes us, taking us into sleep. We think of what our lives actually mean. And then we know how lucky we are if we still enjoy consciousness, rationality and love. But the greatest of these is love."

-- Michael Kirby

#Love Quotes #Mean Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?" "Cant help it. It's the company I keep.”
“Well, I don't like yoga. I've got a thousand things to do.”
“Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.”

Source : Henning Mankell (2010). “Faceless Killers: Kurt Wallander”, p.290, Random House
“In India, there are lots of places that I love, but my favourite is Kashmir.”
“For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a dream come true. These are the kinds of things that we sit around talking to each other about in our dusty libraries. To see these conversations take place in popular culture is the best thing that could have ever happened.”
“[My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.”

Source : Linda Ellerbee (1993). “Move On”
“I did a series called Ned and Stacey for two years for Fox back in the 90s. I was writer on it as well as a producer, and it was very important to me that there were no contemporary references.”
“After all, history is a type of fantasy. For all the primary source research, in the end, the past world the historian builds is as weird and remote from our own as Middle Earth or Narnia, yet oddly familiar.”

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