Quotes & Sayings About Ah Ha Moments

There 's a good time coming, boys! A good time coming. — Charles Mackay

If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding. — Kjell Magne Bondevik

There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons. — Henry Channon

China, with her five thousand years of history, her vast territory and her enormous population stands like a mountain peak among the nations of the world. Her contribution to the civilization of mankind is imperishable. She has been a keen lover of peace; she has had a deep respect for international justice. — Chiang Kai-shek

Our parents' generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off. Even our national history is remembered in terms of the worst we did, not the best. — P.D. James

You learned good, Uncle Fifty," Lou said, shoveling beans onto her plate. "You get an A-plus. Will you teach Mattie how to cook? She can only make mush and pancakes. And a pea soup that's so bad, it's more pee than soup."
Uncle Fifty roared. My sisters laughed. Especially Lou. Pa raised an eyebrow at her, but that didn't quiet her. She knew she was safe because our uncle was laughing.
"Don't mind them, Mattie," Abby said, petting me.
"You like my pea soup, don't you Ab?" I asked, hurt.
She looked at me with her kind eyes. "No, Mattie, I don't. It's awful. — Jennifer Donnelly

Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am. — Michael Cunningham

Lovecraft said that the oldest and strongest type of fear is the fear of the unknown. And he was an authority on such matters.

But that's not exactly it, is it?

We like the unknown. We're hunky dory with the unknown. We are, in fact, perfectly thrilled with the unknown -- as long as it remains unknown and we never have to think about it.

What we're really afraid of is that the unknown will stand up and demand to be recognized. That it won't get out of the way quickly enough and we'll step in it, all squishy and moist. We're terrified at night in the dark that the rough, slouching unknown will crawl into bed and give us a hot wet kiss on the neck.

We're not afraid of the unknown. We're afraid of the unknown becoming known. — Matthew Sturges

Should we become so proficient at self-presentation that we can dissemble without anyone suspecting? — Susan Cain

I'm afraid to start plastic surgery. And my breasts are so versatile now, I can wear them down, up, and side to side. — Cybill Shepherd

Surrender is the most difficult thing in the world while you are doing it and the easiest when it is done. — Bhai Sahib Singh