"I think some of the most significant things happen in history when you get the right people in the right place at the right time and I think that's what we are."

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Source : Source: bknation.org

Chokwe Lumumba

#Thinking Quotes #Significant Things Quotes #People Quotes

“You can't put a price on the rituals of love, because you never know what will happen next. I suppose fear is part of the excitement and we can't have one without the other.”
“...I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central cor to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can. I want, in fact - to borrow from the language of the saints -to live 'in grace' as much of the time as possible. I am not using this term in a strictly theological sense. By grace I mean an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which can be translated into outward harmony...”

Source : "Gift from the Sea". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955.
“Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.”

Source : Kate Braverman (2011). “Palm Latitudes: A Novel”, p.36, Seven Stories Press
“To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.”
“When you write a novel, there's a level at which you are much more revealing about who you are because you're less self-conscious about how you're presenting yourself. You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it's all coming from you.”
“The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.”
“What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round,”

Source : George V. Higgins (2012). “Defending Billy Ryan”, p.78, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“...Your angry and jealous and in the mood to do some forceful dentistry”

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