"It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you."

-- Matthew Hale

#Tongue Quotes #Reputation Quotes #Praise Quotes

“This idea that once you get into politics you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.”

Source : "Forever the rebel with a cause, Gonzalez exits left at City Hall / Idealist energized young liberals in strong run for mayor" by Suzanne Herel, www.sfgate.com. January 3, 2005.
“This week I've travelled more than 15,000 miles from America to China to Burma to Australia. I have no idea what time it is right now.”
“The Law of Wonder rules my life at last, ...I burn each second of my life to Love Each second of my life burns out in Love In each leaping second Love lives afresh.”
“We treat racism in this country like it's a style that America went through. Like flared legs and lava lamps. Oh, that crazy thing we did. We were hanging black people. We treat it like a fad instead of a disease that eradicates millions of people. You've got to get it at a lab, and study it, and see its origins, and see what it's immune to and what breaks it down.”
“The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.”
“I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.”
“People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.”
“I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.”

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