"Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers."

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Source : Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

Learned Hand

#Answers Quotes #Action Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some bras into a garbage can, and somehow that became this longstanding idea of feminists as bra-burners.”
“Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.”
“I want to make photographs whose very ambiguity provokes thought, rather than cuts it off prematurely. I want to make pictures that work on a more mysterious level, that approach the truth by a more circuitous route.”
“My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.”
“It's incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sound like. It's about understanding myself. Sometimes I'll speak to my therapist for an hour a day. It's become part of my routine.”
“I think Iran is a very dangerous country - very dangerous to Israel, to the Middle East, and also to the United States. They export terrorism. And they also have the ability to manufacture rockets and missiles.”
“Great Spirit when we come singing. When we face the sunset the last song, may it be, without shame, singing "It is finished in beauty. It is finished in beauty!"”
“Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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