"If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now and then, a stance."

-- Seamus Heaney

#Distance Quotes #Taken Quotes #Self Quotes

“When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.”
“When the police came, they found my brother asleep on the roof. Nobody knows how he got there.”
“The laws of men are not infallible.”
“A girl is grown up when she stops counting on her fingers and starts counting on her legs.”
“Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff.”
“Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.”
“I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.”
“The bottom line of any country is: what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong.”

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