Intersections are crash magnets.
Tom Vanderbilt, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do.
“The road itself tells us far more than signs do.”
“Drivers should not drive more than a minute without having a (purposefully-designed) curve.”
“In America, a pedestrian is someone who has just parked their car.”
“As Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert argues, 'You can't adapt to commuting, because it's entirely unpredictable. Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell every day.'”
“Traffic was as much an emotional problem as it was a mechanical one.”
“Traffic is more of the in between time where we think more about where we are going than where we are at the moment.”
“Jesus-shaped spirituality hears Jesus say "believe and repent," but the call that resonates most closely in the heart of a disciple is "follow me." The command to follow requires that we take a dai...”
“The engine that drives all your activities is hope. What you hope in shapes you.”
“I assumed my first undivided responsibility.”
“You can't expect to draw people into your life who are kind, confident, and generous if you're thinking and acting in cruel, weak, and selfish ways. You must be what it is that you're seeking that ...”
“We dont really communicate []. We talk all right, talk in that strange language weve evolved for the purposes of avoiding communication. That non-language weve created. Perhaps its a sign that civi...”
“We don’t really communicate […]. We talk all right, talk in that strange language we’ve evolved for the purposes of avoiding communication. That non-language we’ve created. Perhaps it’s a sign that...”
“The seeking of a mate shall be undertaken with due preparation and care. A life-bond should never be contemplated as a light thing--unlike a legal union or sanctified joining, the sealing of souls ...”
“I dont have cookie-cutter relationships, Rumi. Women arent iPhone apps that I download and discard!”
“In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." ...”