"Behind every bad law, a deep fear."

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Sarah Vowell

#Law Quotes #Behinds Quotes

“Knowing your deepest intention can be your guiding force in the creation of a better life.”
“When you breathe, you inspire, and when you do not breathe, you expire.”
“Anxiety is secretive. He does not trust anyone, not even his friends, Worry, Terror, Doubt and Panic ... He likes to visit me late at night when I am alone and exhausted. I have never slept with him, but he kissed me on the forehead once, and I had a headache for two years.”
“I've always been very aware of environment. When I was a kid I wanted to be a marine biologist until I realized I hated being underwater. I think a lot of that came from traveling and seeing the levels of waste produced by so many factories around the world.”
“My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldnâ€™t always discuss for reasons of political expediency,”
“Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.”
“To be mistaken is a misfortune to be pitied; but to know the truth and not to conform one's actions to it is a crime which Heaven and Earth condemn.”
“Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at lifeâ€™s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the wayâ€¦Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, â€˜there is joy is self-forgetfulness.â€™ So I try to make the light in othersâ€™ eyes my sun, the music in others; ears my symphony, the smile on othersâ€™ lips my happiness.”

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