"Pope John XXIII was an amoeba of goodness in a sea of waste, mistakenly believing that the Holy See could or would really change in any fundamental way.He was a tragic figure, for he raised a false hope, cast a brief ray of light that was snuffed out when he died."

-- Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#Believe Quotes #Sea Quotes #Light Quotes

“Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.”
“My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.”
“In New York, unlike Holland, there are newspaper stands on every corner. That was a big headline all over the city.”

Source : Interview with Dave Muller, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 14, 2009.
“But I'm no hero. I had to keep my dirty little secret. The worst sin I committed was holding it in; letting the secret blacken me.”
“Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.”
“One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.”
“America is a conservative country with a small "c" - they want change, but they don't want too much change too fast.”
“I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.”

Source : Dashiell Hammett (2002). “Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921-1960”, Counterpoint Press

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