"And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction."

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Source : Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Player Piano”, p.312, Dial Press

Kurt Vonnegut

#Responsibility Quotes #Steps Quotes #Turns Quotes

“On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans.”

Source : Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co
“People don't change. People are who they are.”
“He always reminded us that every atom in our bodies was once part of a distant star that had exploded. He talked about how evolution moves from simplicity toward complexity, and how human intelligence is the highest known expression of evolution. I remember him telling me that a frog's brain is much more complex than a star. He saw human consciousness as the first neuron of the universe coming to life and awareness. A spark in the darkness, waiting to spread to fire.”

Source : Greg Iles (2004). “The Footprints of God”, p.293, Simon and Schuster
“But then architects don't build their own houses.”
“There are many, many difficult times, god knows. If a person wants to stand on her own two feet, I recommend undertaking the care and feeding of something. It could be children, or it could be house plants, you know? By doing that you come to understand your own limitations. That's where it starts.”
“You want to fly in jets, and I just want to fly" -Baby Carlyle”
“I struggle with how humankind ended up this way. We made ourselves slaves to money, and we all have to work and be a part of this thing when time is always ticking. And before we know it, a decade has gone by, and did I really get to do everything I wanted to do or say everything I wanted to say?”
“Life begins with an inhale and ends with an exhale. ln between that inhale and that exhale is our life.”

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