"Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive."

-- Colum McCann

#Long Quotes #Giving Quotes #Alive Quotes

“When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.”
“In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction.”

Source : Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.299, NYU Press
“It is futile to debate on what is wrong and right with people whose remorse is not their punishment, nor is it reasonable to care about their promise and criticism.”
“It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri.”

Source : Alastair Reynolds (2009). “Revelation Space”, p.357, Hachette UK
“This gives the agents of the gods a powerful area of support. All they need to do is to remind their followers constantly of their mortality and to convince them that the afterlife itself is under the personal management of the particular gods they are promoting. The self-protective urges of their worshippers will do the rest.”
“If leadership is about anything, it's about leading. Not leading people back to where they already are, because they don't need that. They're already there.”

Source : "American Experience", www.pbs.org.
“Charlie Sheen is to stand-up what Larry Flynt is to standing up.”

Source : "Charlie Sheen's Naughty, Bawdy Joke Man Reveals Surprising Secrets of the Tour (Exclusive Q&A)". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 2, 2011.
“Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.”

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