"We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out."

-- Lester Bowie

#Trying Quotes #Clock Quotes #Figures Quotes

“One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.”
“You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just lets you get on with it.”
“If you go to old houses on Long Island you will see painted Chinese wallpaper, which was big in the 18th century. Throughout history, notable, established families have always tried to link to the 18th century.”
“I wanted to be a soccer player. I knew that couldn't happen.”
“I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated”
“Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Not only is their time and labor due to the government, but they should scrupulously avoid in their political action, as well as in the discharge of their official duty, offending by a display of obtrusive partisanship their neighbors who have relations with them as public officials.”
“In this story, the sun moves. In this story, every night meets a dawn and burns away in the bright morning. In this story, Winter can never hold back the Spring... He is the best of all possible audiences, the only Audience to see every scene, the Author who became a Character and heaped every shadow on Himself. The Greeks were right. Live in fear of a grinding end and a dank hereafter. Unless you know a bigger God, or better yet, are related to Him by blood.”
“Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.”

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