"Even in your smallest gestures, you express your sense of honor, if you have one."

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Source : Brian Morton (2007). “Starting Out in the Evening”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Brian Morton

#Honor Quotes #Gestures Quotes #Smallest Quotes

“There in front of me was the Senator on the floor being held by the busboy. There was nobody else around, and I made my first frame, and I forgot to focus the camera. The second frame was a little more in focus... then just for a second, while everything was open, the busboy looked up, and he had this look in his eye. I made that picture, and then suddenly the whole situation closed in again. And it became bedlam.(On the 1968 shooting of U.S. presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy.)”
“Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in heaven too, Double-lived in regions new?”
“The mention of Greece fills the mind with the most exalted sentiments and arouses in our bosoms the best feelings of which our nature is capable.”
“I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.”

Source : Source: www.usatoday.com
“Waiting is an expectant patience. It's a patience that says, "I don't know what God is going to do, but I know God is going to do something."”
“Positivity doesn't just change the contents of your mind...It widens the span of possibilities that you see.”

Source : Barbara Fredrickson (2009). “Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life”, p.9, Harmony
“Neutrinos ... win the minimalist contest: zero charge, zero radius, and very possibly zero mass.”
“Soviets always use words which mean almost the reverse of what they mean to us. So peaceful co-existence does not in any way mean peaceful.”

Source : "Soviet Plans to Spread Communism". WGBH Educational Foundation Interview, lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. February 12, 1987.

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