"This - the leadership of the mayor is crucial, because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the vision, the energy, and the sense of confidence in the rebuilding and the recovery."

-- Marc Morial

#Recovery Quotes #People Quotes #Vision Quotes

“A traveler s thoughts in the night Wander in a thousand miles of dreams.”
“I always think if you have to cook once, it should feed you twice. If you're going to make a big chicken and vegetable soup for lunch on Monday, you stick it in the refrigerator and it's also for Wednesday's dinner.”
“A few days ago Tan Casipo said to me, 'Some people come here with so much dust in their eyes it's unbearable to talk to them.' What does that say about the monkhood? He can't tolerate people with 'dust in their eyes.' All that these monks have developed here is a safe little self-centred world which they call holy because villagers bow down to them. Living in a forest and wearing a robe doesn't make you better than anybody else.”
“In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.”
“Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.”
“The usual bad poem in somebody's Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one's teeth.”
“In our town there is a secret spot where you can still see the stars at night, believe it or not. It is the only spot like that left, unclouded by the dwindling skyscrapers rising nearby. It is a good place to go to walk and talk in whispers. Following the little hill that rises from the park to a small clearing which overlooks the statue of the armless general on his bronze steed, most of us later remember this spot as the first place we knew we might be in love.”

Source : Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.221, Akashic Books
“I'm a big fan of moustaches. I think it's because - and this is not Freudian innuendo at all - my father has a moustache.”

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