"New York, the nation's thyroid gland."

-- Christopher Morley

#New York Quotes #Cities Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time.”

Source : "The Decision Makers". Book by Robert Heller, 1989.
“Well, who is more likely to volunteer to take a job in a bureaucracy that has little to recommend it except that it gives you the power to use government force to control the lives of others? A dispassionate scientist or a zealot? In government, the zealots eventually take over.”
“John Travolta said he sometimes lets his friends take control of his airplane even though they don't know what they're doing. Then Travolta said he often does the same thing with his career.”
“Jesus' life and words are a challenge at the same time that they are Good News. They are a challenge to those of us who are poor and oppressed. By His life He is calling us to give ourselves to others, to sacrifice for those who suffer, to share our lives with our brothers and sisters who are also oppressed. He is calling us to "hunger and thirst after justice" in the same way that we hunger and thirst after food and water: that is, by putting our yearning into practice.”
“I just try to get on anyway that I can, hit, hit-by-pitch, walk, home runs, anything.”
“A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.”
“My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.”
“Sometimes I smile so big, I get scared that my face is gonna explode.”

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