#story

When I was in school I studied biology. I learned that in making their experiments scientists will take some group--bacteria, mice, people--and subject that group to certain conditions. They compare the results with a second group which has not been disturbed. This second group is called the control group. It is the control group which enables the scientist gauge the effect of his experiment. To judge the significance of what has occurred. In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was. It is supposed to be true that those who o not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God--who knows all that can be known--seems powerless to change. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#change

When you celebrate, there is sure to be cake." Florence Ditlow, in "The Bakery Girls. ↗

— Florence Ditlow

#food #humor #womwens-history #wwll #food

Fear of change was a weakness ↗

— J.R. Ward

#black #black-dagger #black-dagger-brotherhood #brotherhood #dagger

Our love is an adventurous melody, our souls forever as one. ↗

— Angela Richardson

#love-story #soul-mates #love

all night he talks and holds me, all night he loves me slow and careful. ↗

— Robert Adamson

#love

E' la possibilità, non la garanzia, quella che mi fa andare avanti. Una specie di scomessa da parte mia. E chiamatemi pure pazzo, o sognatore o quel che vi pare, io credo che tutto sia possibile. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#romance #love

I defend the authority of women and explore its meaning for them rather than assume they need to be more accommodating or sensitive. ↗

— David Bedrick

#dr-phil #love-based-psychology #women #women-s-history-month #women-s-rights

Maybe you yhink you're not perfect,not pretty enough,or smart enough,but for some guy,you're pefect just the way you are.that's your perfect man. ↗

— Yuchita Erayani

#love-story #love

I see myself as Kiki de Montparnasse, trying to get Man Ray's attention. (Sofia Navarro, 7th July 2012). ↗

— Sofía Navarro

#boheme #conquista #kiki-de-montparnasse #love #lovers

It didn't matter that the story had begun, because kathakali discovered long ago that the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones that you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don't decieve with thrills and trick endings. They don't surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover's skin. You know how the end, yet you listen as though you don't. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won't. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, and who doesn't. And yet you want to know again. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#great-story #secrets #stories #story #storytelling