"That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people."

-- Tracy Kidder

#Airplane Quotes #People Quotes #Alive Quotes

“It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.”
“No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.”
“You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take. The night before, I'd offered up my hand. Now, if I held on, there was no telling what it was possible to recieve in return.”
“My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.”
“What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football.”
“I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood.”
“I have always been a big advocate of tap water-not because I think it harmless but because the idea of purchasing water extracted from some remote watershed and then hauled halfway round the world bothers me. Drinking bottled water relieves people of their concern about ecological threats to the river they live by or to the basins of groundwater they live over. It's the same kind of thinking that leads some to the complacent conclusion that if things on earth get bad enough, well, we'll just blast off to a space station somewhere else.”
“Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.”

Source : Mercedes McCambridge (1981). “The quality of mercy: an autobiography”, Crown

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