"Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car."

-- Ruth Rendell

#Years Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Car Quotes

“Where's the hope that can abate The grief of hearts thus desolate That can Youth's keenest pangs assuage, And mitigate the gloom of Age? Religion bids the tempest cease, And, leads her to a port of peace; And on, the lonely pilot steers Through the lapse of future years.”

Source : Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems”, p.103
“Hillary Clinton is pretty much what we would call a foreign-policy realist, someone who thinks the purpose of American foreign policy should be to adjust the foreign policies of other countries, work closely with traditional allies in Europe and Asia towards that end.”

Source : "Examining The Foreign Policy Outlook Of Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. September 2, 2016.
“...for hope is always born at the same time as love...”
“My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner.”
“As a viewer, that's work I respond to - work that I know is singular in some way. If I'm being challenged by something on screen, if I don't quite know why it's happening, I want to know I can do the work of pulling it apart and that there'll be something satisfactory about it. If the architecture is sound, you can be lyrical in execution.”
“Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.”
“When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.”
“Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.”

Source : Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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