"Saw the ghost of Elvis on Union Avenue, followed him up to the gates of Graceland."

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Source : Song: Walking In Memphis, Album: Marc Cohn, 1991

Marc Cohn

#Unions Quotes #Saws Quotes #Ghost Quotes

“A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.”
“I feel fortunate that, by the age of 40, I had crammed in an entire political career.I had been in the Cabinet and been leader of the party, so now I can branch out into other things... it is a very liberating feeling.”
“I've always lived a life where what you see if what you get. I've never wanted to live two different lifestyles. The initial transition for me was perhaps the most difficult. It wasn't easy communicating what I believed and what my values were. Establishing that as a young adult was interesting. I was 20 years old when I got saved.”
“Jesus built a ship to sing a song to, it sails the rivers and it sails the tide. Some of my friends don't know who they belong to, some can't get a single thing to work inside.”
“Nobody ever inferred from the multiple infirmities of Windows that Bill Gates was infinitely benevolent, omniscient, and able to fix everything.”

Source : Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.118, Oxford University Press
“As people strengthened their willpower muscles in one part of their livesâ€”in the gym, or a money management programâ€”that strength spilled over into what they ate or how hard they worked. Once willpower became stronger, it touched everything.”
“Tomorrow's leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre - from the heart”
“As it turned out, my perception was so much more intimidating than the reality.”

Source : Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards (2010). “Manifesta [10th Anniversary Edition]: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future”, p.269, Macmillan

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