"And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like a jewel bright./ Up through the waters of the stream/ An instant visible to sight/ As lightning cleaves to sombre sky/ A rainbow rises to the fly."

-- John Buchan

#Fall Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Lakes Quotes

“When you're missing your two front teeth, that's honesty. That is a door to your oral history. You're not covering anything up. You're saying, 'Hey world, I'm missing my front teeth. I'm gross; I'm dirty; I'm poor. I clearly have no problem with public urination and eating garbage. Don't come near me, I'll gum you to death!”
“It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.”
“I can't say why some memories float and other sink.”
“When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings.”
“We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I'm interested in finding new and more humane modes of safety, and in exposing the arbitrary and superficial protections that have failed us.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.”
“You grow old when you lose interest in life, when you cease to dream, to hunger after new truths, and to search for new worlds to conquer. When your mind is open to new ideas, new interests, and when you raise the curtain and let in the sunshine and inspiration of new truths of life and the universe, you will be young and vital.”

Source : Joseph Murphy (2011). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind: Unlock the Secrets Within”, p.184, Penguin

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