"I couldn't forget. I couldn't break. She had the power to break me. No one had ever been given that power, ever."

-- Abbi Glines

#Forget Quotes #Break Quotes #Given Quotes

“Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”

Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 18 Dec. 1988
“We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we constructed these practical and emotional obstacles, we might move beyond it to healthier, happier perceptions of ourselves and, ideally, a better sense of self-esteem.”
“Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.”

Source : John Mason Brown (1950). “Still seeing things”
“The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.”
“The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape.”

Source : David Weinberger (2014). “Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room”, p.195, Basic Books
“When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying, Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town.”

Source : "London Snow" l. 1 (1890)
“Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of societyâ€™s energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings.”
“Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep.”

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