"You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters."

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John Burns

#Morning Quotes #Character Quotes #Fog Quotes

“What is the worth of anything we do? The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life”
“When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.”
“The events in Crimea themselves have nothing to do with what happened in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and other regions. In my opinion, when the world becomes unipolar, or when someone tries to make it so, then this one pole has the illusion that all issues can be settled through power. And only when there is a balance of power does the desire to negotiate appears.”
“A lot of my work is about these moments you find, like when you're driving alone at night by yourself, or you sit at home and smoke a cigarette and all of a sudden there is beautiful music playing - for me it is sad piano music - and think, "I'm so in love and I don't even know with what." You want to freeze this moment.”
“The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.”
“Be bold, and everywhere be bold.”

Source : 'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 3, canto 11, st. 54
“When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it.”
“Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.”

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