"People take things too literal in the Bible and it's totally wrong."

-- Benjamin Clementine

#People Quotes #Literal Quotes

“About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.”
“The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.”

Source : Willa Cather (1970). “The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902”, p.368, U of Nebraska Press
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
“The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.”
“We can never know the origins of the universe. The deepest secrets are the ones that keep themselves.”

Source : John D Barrow (2014). “The Origin Of The Universe: Science Masters Series”, p.137, Basic Books
“If life gives you limes, make margaritas.”

Source : "If Life Gives You Limes, Make Margaritas" by Andrea Chalupa, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2008.
“I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children.”
“I'm sorry I kissed you- it was selfish and it upset you- but you can't ask me to pretend I didnt want to.”

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