"You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason."

-- Ernest Hemingway

#Spring Quotes #Rain Quotes #Fall Quotes

“In Western Europe and North America some things are better than they were - at least relative to their moral nadirs - such as labour legislation, the opening of the professions to women, intolerance for domestic violence, but so much is still morally unacceptable - the weapons trade, cruel and unusual punishment, economic parasitism.”
“And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference...”
“What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.”
“One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you luck.”
“Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.”

Source : Henry W. Kendall (2013). “A Distant Light: Scientists and Public Policy”, p.233, Springer
“I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.”
“I've gone through so much in my life. I should have been dead a long time ago, but I am still here, and I'm the happiest I've ever been.”

Source : "Etta James' New Lease Of Life", www.sfgate.com. August 22, 2003.
“The study of everything that stands connected with the death of Christ, whether it be in the types of the ceremonial law, the predictions of the prophets, the narratives of the gospels, the doctrines of the epistles, or the sublime vision of the Apocalypse, this is the food of the soul, the manna from heaven, the bread of life. This is "meat indeed" and "drink indeed.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 69, 1895.

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