"I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time."

-- Alan Ball

#Trying Quotes #Waste Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.”
“Politics is the means by which the will of the few becomes the will of the many.”
“Life is a movie; death is a photograph.”
“At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.”

Source : Ruth Gordon (1971). “Myself Among Others”
“The dancer will not belong to any nation but to all humanity.”
“The pursuit by the Iranian regime of nuclear weapons represents a direct threat to the entire international community, including to the United States and to the Persian Gulf region.”
“If those friends who blame...could see what we see, and feel what we feel, they would be the first to wonder that those redeemed by Christ should be so backward in devotion, and know so little of the spirit of self-sacrifice. They would be ashamed of the hesitations that hinder us. But we must remember that it was not by interceding for the world in glory that Jesus saved it. He gave Himself. Our prayers for the evangelization of the world are but a bitter irony as we only give of our superfluity and draw back before the sacrifice of ourselves.”
“But things change, of course, and so do the ways in which people see themselves.”

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