"I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fadeand flee; And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky, Has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die."

-- William Butler Yeats

#Stars Quotes #Twilight Quotes #Sadness Quotes

“Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out.”
“We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the internet, where information is still freely available. For the rest, if you want to go on working as a journalist, it's total servility to Putin. Otherwise, it can be death, the bullet, poison, or trialâ€”whatever our special services, Putin's guard dogs, see fit.”

Source : "Poisoned by Putin: The horror of Beslan was made still worse by the intimidation of Russia's servile media". www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2004.
“Anything you think of doing, however insignificant, should be done immediately. Spur yourself on and carry it through without becoming discouraged. If this becomes an ingrained habit, things you thought were impossible will become possible, and closed doors will open, as you will discover in many ways.”
“The procrastinator dreads beginning, the workaholic, ending.”
“It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be.”
“Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're four and a half hours by boat from the nearest store, and there's nobody but 30 crew members on the island, I guarantee that you'd be running around without your clothes on.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.”
“I think you should aim for the stars - and hopefully avoid ending up in the clouds!”

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