"If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody."

-- Madeleine L'Engle

#Fall Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Care Quotes

“For me, peace should provide security to the Jewish people.”
“There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.”

Source : "The Bookseller of Kabul author cleared of invading Afghan family's privacy" by Alexandra Topping, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2011.
“The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.”
“I think Confederate Battle Flag is a symbol that causes a great deal of division and reminds us of a really hurtful legacy and past... I think there are some Southerners, black and white, who feel as though the rest of the country looks down on the South as uneducated and backward. And for some people, that was a symbol of defiance against that.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.”
“Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: Its painful, and its the last resort for nations.”
“Before consulting the hotheads who present various military options such as a military invasion: remember, President Reagan, Rambo only exists in the movies.”

Source : Daniel Ortega (1987). “Discurso pronunciado por el Presidente de la República de Nicaragua y Coordinador de la Comisión Ejecutiva de la Dirección Nacional del Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, Comandante de la Revolución Daniel Ortega Saavedra, en la Cuadragésima Segund”
“Look at your work and it tells you how it is when you hold back or when you embrace. When you are lazy, your art is lazy; when you hold back, it holds back; when you hesitate, it stands there staring, hands in its pockets. But when you commit, it comes on like blazes.”

Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.49, Image Continuum Press

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