"That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust"

-- Robert Byrd

#Fall Quotes #Dust Quotes #Feet Quotes

“Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the Pythagorean theorem just waiting to be discovered by Platonic reasoners? Or do people feel revulsion and sympathy when they read accounts of torture, and then invent a story about universal rights to help justify their feelings?”
“Well you know, I have the utmost respect for people like Angelina Jolie and Zoe Saldana in 'Colombiana.”
“People don't know how hard it is to have your own business”
“The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part's not that great.”
“The entire exhibitions industry in the United States of America has filed for bankruptcy.”
“The most positive action we can take about the past is to change our perception of it.”
“When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.”

Source : Walter M. Miller Jr. (1959). “A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ”
“Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.”

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