"Alike to the slave and his oppressor cometh night with sweet refreshment, and half of the life of the most wretched is gladdened by the soothings of sleep."

-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Sweet Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Night Quotes

“That's the fun part of it all. You get creative when you're in Little League. You're creative when you're in middle school. You're creative in high school and college. And then when you get to the league, this position, the more mobile quarterbacks, we have a tendency to want to become traditional and nervous and panicky in how we want to call plays and put guys in position to make plays.”
“I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console.”

Source : Elie Wiesel (2012). “Open Heart”, p.73, Schocken
“Like having your own licence to print money.”
“If someone tells you, "You can't" they really mean, "I can't."”

Source : FaceBook post by Sean Stephenson from Mar 20, 2011
“We can't behave like crocodiles and cry over spilled milk and broken eggs.”
“The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.”

Source : Timothy Radcliffe (2005). “Seven Last Words”, p.91, A&C Black
“I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.”
“Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.”

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