"Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones."

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Source : Tillie Olsen (2013). “Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works”, p.46, U of Nebraska Press

Tillie Olsen

#Women Quotes #Blood Quotes #Religion Quotes

“Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.”

Source : Naomi Klein (2000). “No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies”, Vintage Canada
“Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted in the spring died. The patch of grass in front of the house abandoned its ambitions to become a lawn and turned into the dirty yellow of poor straw. The earth shrank, revealing its knuckles and bones, rocks and roots that had been invisible before.”

Source : Peter Mayle (2001). “Toujours Provence”, p.148, Penguin UK
“You are the power in your world! You get to have whatever you choose to think!”
“John Wayne is not just an actor, and a very fine actor - John Wayne is the United States of America.”
“The revolution begins at home. If you overthrow yourself again and again, you might earn the right to help overthrow the rest of us.”
“I have always believed that there is no point in having regrets as you learn far more from mistakes than successes. Embrace a mistake and learn from it; don't regret them.”
“Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of course gradually we become tough, less sensitive.”
“We don't know what those other cycles were caused by in the past. Could be dinosaur flatulence, you know, or who knows?”

Source : "Rep. Rohrabacher: Global Warming May Have Been Caused By ‘Dinosaur Flatulence’". thinkprogress.org. February 10, 2007.

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