"Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!"

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Source : 1822 'Hellas', l.34-7.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#Life Quotes #May Quotes #Truth Is Quotes

“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
“Even today few scientists and perhaps even fewer nonscientists realize that science is a method and nothing else.”
“I think that a lot of people are in love with stress. It's the dirty little secret of Western civilization. People often mistake stress for fuel.... to me, stress is just another bad drug that I don't want to do.”
“People who achieve their goals do so with passion, planning, persistence and purpose.”
“If the veteran only has a year or two left on his contract, teams are hesitant to trade a draft pick for a player in that position. Why pay a big cap number for a guy you might only have for a short time And then there's the reality that the veteran and the agent would probably want to be on the open market anyway, figuring they'll get more money that way. The system is not conducive to making a deal for a veteran.”
“There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.”
“I married someone whom I was close friends with first. I think that was a really good move.”
“Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same: that enormous emptiness carved out of such tiny beings as we are asks to be filled; the need for the new love is faithfulness to the old.”

Source : Galway Kinnell (2001). “A New Selected Poems”, p.95, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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