"Lady Dance's music wasn't a magic charm. I'd misunderstood. We had all failed to understand. The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive. 'Rejoice,' came the soft voice of Lady Dance in my mind. 'Watch the moon and stars...' Death had ruled my life till I met Lady Dance. Her dance had set me free."

-- Jackie French

#Song Quotes #Stars Quotes #Moon Quotes

“The day you stop caring what other people think of you is the day your life begins.”
“If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility”
“People, the common people, can genuinely see what I'm doing. Moreover, people know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence. These are the four principles I adopted at the very beginning and continue to use until now. People see this and give me donations.”

Source : Source: www.irinnews.org
“High standards generally -- about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of art and much else -- far from being snobbish, are required to maintain decency in life.”
“But as we move from this period of what many Iraqis regard as perceived occupation, we need to move towards one of partnership.”

Source : Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.
“Nearer, my God, to Thee.”
“A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute a killer. Mourn his victims. Justice.[...] I just gave the go ahead to Corrections Director to proceed with Gardner's execution. May God grant him the mercy he denied his victims.[...] We will be streaming live my press conference as soon as I'm told Gardner is dead. Watch it at www.attorneygeneral.Utah.gov/live.html.”

Source : Mark L. Shurtleff ‏ @MarkShurtleff, twitter.com. June 18, 2010.
“When someone like Brian Oldfield can beat me, I will retire.”

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