QUOTES from printed matter

On Change, Barrie Sanford Greiff, MD (in "A Life Worth Living", Regan Books, Harper Collins Publishers) wrote:

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There is age change and work change and parents and kids change, success change, and failure change, too. And if you dont take change by the hand, it will surely take you by the neck.

photo by Lin Pernille

On death and dying, Maya Angelou in "Wouldnt Take Nothing for my Journey Now" wrote:

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"I can accept the idea of my own demise, but I am unable to accept the death of anyone else." photo by Laszlo

Tom Hodgkinson in "How to be Free" wrote:

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Learning to live within limited means gives a great sense of security because you become free of wanting more and therefore free of struggle.

photo by Dazzie D

Dorothy Leeds in "Powerspeak" wrote:

2007-10-13T22:56:00.003+08:00

Never underestimate the power of warmth.

photo by discoodoni

Honore De Balzac in "Eugenie Grandet" wrote:

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Nothings resists the effects of time.

photo by Fabiola Medeiros

Peter Williams & Roger Warwick, Editors of Gray's Anatomy in its 35th edition preface wrote:

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"It is customary to eulogize the patience of wives- faint praise which is scarcely galante. Far from tolerating our preoccupation, our wives have supported us unfailingly with true and critical interest and sympathy in our labours."

photo by tanakawho

In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen wrote:

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"An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do."

(father talking to daughter)

photo by the moment

Po Bronson in "What should I do with my life?: The true story of people who answered the ultimate question" wrote:

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"THE HARDEST THINGS ARE THE MOST LIBERATING."

photo by ArchanaR

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte:

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"The act pleased me, as it lifted me out of the passivity of my existence."

(said Jane Eyre after helping someone in distress)

photo by ivanatm

Leslie Savan in "Slam Dunks and No-Brainers:Pop Language in Your Life, the Media, and Like...Whatever" wrote:

2007-11-21T19:21:00.001+08:00

"Trends overlap, shrink, bulge, and shrink again....

Not only is it impossible to always keep up-to-date, but the compulsion to do so make you look like a fool...

Always riding the cutting edge not only can produce some nasty burns, it's much less interesting than understanding the long-lasting stuff."

photo by porcelaingirl

Carl T. Rowan in "Unforgettable Miss Bessie" wrote:

2007-11-24T00:24:00.001+08:00

"But do you know what really takes guts? Refusing to lower your standards to those of the crowd."

photo by elroySF

On nonverbal communication, Ronald B. Adler and Neil Towne in "Looking In, Looking out 9th Ed." wrote:

2007-11-24T00:42:00.004+08:00

"This impossibility of not communicating is extremely important to understand because it means that each of us is a kind of transmitter that cannot be shut off. No matter what we do, we give off information about ourselves."

photo by s-a-m.

In Model for Writers by A. Rosa and P. Eschholz , "Anxiety: Challenge by Another Name" was featured where James Lincoln Collier wrote::

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"He had extinguished his anxiety the only way he could- by confronting it."
photo by janusz l

Isaac Asimov in "Intelligence" wrote:

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"...I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not possibly have scored more than 80...Yet, when anything went wrong with my car I hastened to him with it, watched him anxiously...listened to his pronouncements as though they were divine oracles- and he always fixed my car....
My intelligence, then, is not absolute but is a function of the society I live in and of the fact that a small subsection of that society has managed to foist on the rest as an arbiter of such matters."

photo by Tom Mascardo

Ralph Waldo Emerson in "History" wrote:

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"The student is to read history actively and not passively...There is no age or state of society or mode of action in history, to which there is not somewhat corresponding in his life...Every mind must know the whole lesson..."

photo by kk+

Ralph Waldo Emerson in "History" wrote:

2007-12-06T11:25:00.006+08:00

" Nothing is so fleeting as form..."

photo by sarchi

also by R. W. Emerson in History:

"A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day. Who knows himself before he has been thrilled with indignation at an outrage, or has heard an eloquent tongue...No man can antedate his experience, or guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock, any more than he can draw to-day the face of a person whom he shall see to-morrow for the first time."

Mireille Guiliano in "French Women Dont Get Fat" says

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"Be wary of unrealistic goals--we can't all be model thin."

photo by Alaskan Dude

Theodore Dreiser in "The Lost Phoebe" wrote:

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Old Henry...and his wife Phoebe were a loving couple. You perhaps know how it is with simple natures that fasten themselves like lichens on the stones of circumstance and weather their days to a crumbling conclusion. The great world sounds widely, but it has no call for them...

Old Henry and his wife Phoebe were as fond of each other as it is possible for two old people who have nothing else in this life to be fond of...

Old Henry, who knew his wife would never leave him in any circumstance, used to speculate at times as to what he would do if she were to die. That was the one leaving that he
really feared...

photo by prakhar

Theresa Garcia-Runstedtler dedicating her dissertation to a fighter niece:

2007-10-19T21:53:00.002+08:00

Dedicated to little Naomi,

who fought for her life and

inspired me to be a better person.

more quotes from her, pls see here .

Theresa G. Runstedtler in "Journeymen: Race, Boxing, and the Transnational World of Jack Johnson" wrote:

2007-10-26T22:05:00.002+08:00

"...“sparring” contests between Western nations over their relative levels of racial tolerance are by no means new, and in particular, African Americans have long served as important ciphers in these debates......

It is no longer enough to point the finger elsewhere, for the challenges we face require us to acknowledge the global routes of racial discourses."

for full text, pls click here.

Alan Deutschman in "Change or Die" wrote:

2008-09-03T22:09:00.008+08:00

People are blind to their own faults...but their flaws are easily seen by everyone around them.

more about A. Deutschman here

also from the same book/author:

Even though change is a vital part of life, people crave a feeling of consistency and continuity.

Neil Smith in "The Twitter Machine, Reflections on Language" wrote:

2008-09-01T18:47:00.003+08:00

In linguistics as in politics, revolutions breed animosity as well as new ideas, with the partisans of each side indulging in hostilities against the enemy. While many linguists would dearly love to rid the earth of their rivals, less extreme measures are usually resorted to, with the combatants restricting themselves to vilification and verbal snipping.

James Rogers listed in "Dictionary of Cliches"

2008-08-29T22:24:00.005+08:00

Eloquent Silence. Conveying more by saying nothing than by speaking.

In same book, he quoted Martin Tupper who wrote "Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."

Anita Shreve in "Light in Snow" wrote:

2008-08-29T22:37:00.002+08:00

People are predictable...We go back to the places that once gave us a jolt.

Michael Jones, well known pianist, in his book "Creating an Imaginative Life", wrote:

2008-08-20T15:10:00.006+08:00

Success offers us excitement, but failures give us weight, the weight that cracks open the heart to a quality of earthly love that success can never find...

life's pearls are sometimes found in unlikely places.

more about him here