"I think that kind of urgency is what makes this stage of the climate movement really different from what it was even a few years ago when it was much more of the professionalized NGOs lobbying behind closed doors and maybe having a march now and then."

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Source : Source: www.indiewire.com

Avi Lewis

#Thinking Quotes #Doors Quotes #Years Quotes

“I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.”
“We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.”
“It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.”

Source : O. Henry (2006). “Selected Stories”, p.423, Penguin
“I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.”
“An unprecedented number of uniformed males, marching, parading and engaging in mock battles in every region of Great Britain brought a pleasant frisson of excitement into many normally quiet and deeply repetitive female lives.”
“Anyway, now she thinks of Estha and Rahel as Them, because, separately, the two of them are no longer what They were or ever thought They would be. Ever. Their lives have a size and a shape now. Estha has his and Rahel hers. Edges, Borders, Boundaries, Brinks and Limits have appeared like a team of trolls on their separate horizons. Short creatures with long shadows, patrolling the Blurry End. Gentle half-moons have gathered under their eyes and they are as old as Ammu was when she died.”
“If you only know one kriya, then share that. Just be humble, teach it. Every student is a teacher.”
“It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk.”

Source : Chaim Potok (2012). “The Promise”, p.189, Anchor

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