"I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years."

-- Michael Dirda

#Lying Quotes #Night Quotes #Years Quotes

“Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.”

Source : "An Encyclopedist of the Dark Ages: Isidore of Seville", by Ernest Brehaut New York: B. Franklin, 1964.
“the long-distance run of an early morning makes me think that every run like this is a life- a little life, I know- but a life as full of misery and happiness and things happening as you can ever get really around yourself”

Source : Alan Sillitoe (2016). “New and Collected Stories”, p.13, Open Road Media
“The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.”

Source : John Wesley Powell (2008). “Canyons of the Colorado”, p.394, Cosimo, Inc.
“God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.”
“Make the subtle shift from pushing ourselves to be the best in the world, to allowing ourselves to be the best for the world.”
“Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.”
“The way of surviving is to find meaning in suffering.”
“We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.”

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