"As estimated, you died. Things marched, sufficient, to that end. Just so much Zyklon and leather, patented terror, so many routine cries."

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Source : Geoffrey Hill (2000). “New & Collected Poems, 1952-1992”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

#Death Quotes #Routine Quotes #Cry Quotes

“I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible.”
“If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it.”
“I don't cook very well at all. I'm the girl that can't make scrambled eggs.”
“I'm very close to the pro-life movement.”
“Slaveholders deployed so-called scientific racism to justify racial slavery.”
“May God give you - and me- the courage, the wisdom, the strength always to hold the kingdom of God as the number one priority of our lives. To do so is to live in simplicity.”
“Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.”

Source : Krista Tippett (2016). “Becoming Wise Deluxe: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living”, p.108, Penguin
“I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.”

Source : John Major (2013). “John Major: The Autobiography”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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