"I have always felt that whatever the divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report."

-- Charles A. Dana

#Proud Quotes #Divine Quotes #Providence Quotes

“The first rule of baseball is to get a good ball to hit.”
“Well, we certainly need to raise the retirement age. I've told my 19-year-old and my 22-year-old that they're not going to be getting retirement benefits at age 62.”

Source : "Interview with Colorado Senate Candidate Ken Buck". "The John King, USA Show", www.realclearpolitics.com. August 11, 2010.
“There is no knowing beyond that membrane, the meniscus of death. What can be seen from here is distorted, refracted. All we can know are those untrustworthy glimpses--that and rumour. The prattle. The dead gossip: it is the reverberation of that gossip against the surface tension of death that the better mediums hear. It is like listening to whispered secrets through a toilet door. It is a crude and muffled susurrus.”
“What held people together was the belief that you're really going to change the world. I think that's the nature of many startups. You believe that what you are doing is going to have a dramatic impact. You might not exactly know how, but you really have a belief. That keeps you going and going through many changes and a lot of uncertainty.”
“I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and just beginning college. I did that for a couple of years.”
“In my day we used to have pray to run into an ex looking great, but now you just post a selfie in your underwear.”
“They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.”
“Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.”

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