"The world changed while I slept, and much to my surprise, no one had consulted me."

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Source : Carlos Eire (2012). “Waiting For Snow In Havana”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

Carlos Eire

#World Quotes #Surprise Quotes #Changed Quotes

“The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.”
“The dreamer dies, but never dies the dream”

Source : Dana Burnet (1915). “Poems”
“I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didnâ€™t understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go. Suicide? Jesus Christ, just more work. I felt like sleeping for five years but they wouldnâ€™t let me.”
“I always say, the only time you gotta worry about getting booed is when you're wearing a white uniform. And I've never been booed wearing a white uniform.”
“Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods, had a similar view of nature; for they made the Oceanus and Tethys the parents of creation, and described the oath of the Gods as being by water, to which they give the name of Styx; for what is oldest is most honourable, and the most honourable thing is that by which one swears”
“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.”
“I played football growing up in junior high and high school.”

Source : "Actor Ryan Merriman on his latest football film The 5th Quarter". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. May 2011.
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”

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