“Some things are sacred. Until you act like they're not. Then you lose them”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
Source: Shadowfever
"Bright Lights" (from the Matchbox Twenty album More Than You Think You Are)
“Some things are sacred. Until you act like they're not. Then you lose them”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
Source: Shadowfever
“Here's the thing about luck… you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.”
Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer
Source: Local Girls
“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
John Green book Paper Towns
Quentin "Q" Jacobsen, p. 229
Paper Towns (2008)
Edwin H. Land (1909–1991) American scientist and inventor
As quoted in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 146, no. 1, (March 2002), p. 115
Context: If you sense a deep human need, then you go back to all the basic science. If there is some missing, then you try to do more basic science and applied science until you get it. So you make the system to fulfill that need, rather than starting the other way around, where you have something and wonder what to do with it.
Sarra Manning (1950) British writer
Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me