"When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?"

-- Sam Levenson

#Father Quotes #Boys Quotes #Want Quotes

“I prefer a painful truth over any blissful fantasy.”

Source : "Manning-Lamo Chat Logs Revealed". Excerpts from instant messenger chats, www.wired.com. July 13, 2011.
“Emma and I had both died twice, and for me, that second one actually stuck. Now I was a "resurrected American," better known, in colloquial terms, as life-challenged. Or undead. Or the living dead. But I'm not a zombie. I'm just a little less alive than your average high school junior.”
“Politics is activity in relation to power”

Source : Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.238, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)
“I think not in two or three dimensional terms but in five dimensional terms when I consider a novel. There's height, width, and depth, there's the time factor, and then there's the factor which I call the cerebral factor of the reader, the way the reader adjusts to all the other dimensions, which is the fifth dimension.”
“As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.”

Source : "Landon Donovan: World Cup Interview". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 17, 2006.
“And God 'sits in the heavens and laughs' at the proud who pretend to be more than they are.”
“A government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover, the individual must be independent and free within his own sphere or cease to be an individual. The fundamental question ... is now, and always will be through what adjustments, by what actions, these principles may be applied.”
“...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.”

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