"I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going to fully appreciate what this reform is if we pass it and implement it and it becomes not a caricature but a reality, and I still believe that. So I think it will be easier to sell it moving forward than it was to this point."

-- David Axelrod

#Believe Quotes #Moving Quotes #Reality Quotes

“But what first motivated me wasn't anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods and so forth...”

Source : Interview with "Earth First!" in Administrative Maximum Facility Prison, Florence, Colorado, USA, June 1999.
“The way to accomplish the assignment of truly living is to engage fully, richly, and deeply in the living of your dreams. We are made to dream and to live those dreams.”

Source : SARK (2009). “Make Your Creative Dreams Real: A Plan for Procrastinators, Perfectionists, Busy P”, p.35, Simon and Schuster
“Focusing on the Lord and everlasting life can help us not only at Christmas, but through all the challenges of mortality.”
“Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor will they ever succeed in defining happiness, for happiness is a thing that is lived and felt, not a thing that is reasoned or defined.”
“Faith is the enemy of discovery.”
“Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.”
“Watching Phil Mickelson play golf is like watching a drunk chasing a balloon near the edge of a cliff.”
“The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf. In the dark some soul yells. It hurts to walk barefoot on cowrie shells.”

Source : Harryette Mullen (2002). “Sleeping with the Dictionary”, p.39, Univ of California Press

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