"But mark, madam, we live amongst riddles and mysteries--the most obvious things, which come in our way, have dark sides, which thequickest sight cannot penetrate into; and even the clearest and most exalted understandings amongst us find ourselves puzzled and at a loss in almost every cranny of nature's works."

-- Laurence Sterne

#Knowledge Quotes #Loss Quotes #Dark Quotes

“Stories move in circle.Â They donâ€™t move in straight lines.Â So it helps if you listen in circles.Â There are stories inside stories and stories between stories and finding your way through them is as easy and as hard as finding your way home.Â And part of the finding is the getting lost.Â And when youâ€™re lost you start to look around and to listen.”
“A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul”
“Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.”

Source : "Electing the Conservatives is a risk we must not take" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2009.
“I won't be going to any New Year's Eve parties because I think they're naff. No one over the age of 15 should bother going to parties.”
“I began writing for kids because I wanted to effect a change in American society. I continue in that spirit. By the time we reach adulthood, we are closed and set in our attitudes. The chances of a poet reaching us are very slim. But I can open a child's imagination, develop his appetite for poetry, and more importantly, show him that poetry is a natural part of everyday life. We all need someone to point out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. That's the poet's job.”
“I was born in a place humans call central Africa, in a dense rain forest so beautiful, no crayons could ever do it justice.”
“Every day I think, 'Can I commit?' I think I can and that I will”
“Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.”

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