"Rick Bass is one of a dwindling handful of American fiction writers still celebrating the importance of place, the natural world, and the struggle of a few brave souls to live and work respectfully in what's left of our western wilderness...The Lives of Rocks is his most lyrical and powerful book to date...a masterwork."

-- Howard Frank Mosher

#Powerful Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Book Quotes

“It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.”

Source : "Game of Thrones' Maisie Williams on How Arya's Quest Is About More Than Vengeance". Interview with Scott Collura, www.ign.com. April 3, 2014.
“I remember when I saw 'The Matrix' when I was 13, I saw it in the theaters, and I was so blown away by it. It was one of the most memorable experiences I definitely ever had in the theater.”

Source : "Jewish US Lawmaker Gabrielle Giffords Shot, Prognosis Optimistic". www.israelnationalnews.com. January 08, 2011.
“When you grow up, your heart dies.”

Source : Jaime Clarke, Ally Sheedy (2007). “Don't you forget about me: contemporary writers on the films of John Hughes”, Gallery
“I made the decision long ago that to be afraid would be to diminish my life.”
“There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.”
“I hate those people that get up and they're amazing. I think you just have to be kind of wasted to go and do it.”

Source : "Sam Palladio’s 9 to 5". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 1, 2013.
“In order to have enough of the raw materials...which will be lacking in wartime, we should plan to acquire and use foreign resources existing in our expected sphere of influence, such as Sakhalim, China, and the Southern Pacific.”

Source : "Carriers in Combat: The Air War at Sea" by Chester G. Hearn, (p. 43), 2007.
“Only when we are captured by an overwhelming sense of awe and reverence in the presence of God, will we begin to worship God in spirit and in truth.”

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