"But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content."

-- Anne Boyd

#Scotland Quotes #Casts Quotes

“There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.”
“Every measurement of where you have more public confidence in creating jobs, American prosperity, controlling crime, health care, providing education, all of these standards, Bill Clinton has considerably high marks. The sole exception is on protecting taxes, which is initially his attack.”
“I don't think there's anything wrong with not knowing how to play an instrument, but the rise of the non-musical producer has done away with musicianship and focused attention purely on the song's hook.”
“Where there had been only fearful emptiness or equally frightening grandiose fanÂtasies, an unexpected wealth of vitality is now discovered. This is not a homecoming, since this home has never before existed. It is the creation of home.”
“Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean. It leaves us in a blind alley. But, like methodical doubt, it can, by returning upon itself, open up a new field of investigation, and in the process of reasoning then pursues the same course. I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my proclamation and I must at least believe in my protest.”
“The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovarâ€™s crooked nose.”

Source : Ella Leya (2015). “Orphan Sky”, p.80, Sourcebooks, Inc.
“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.”
“The children of any nation are its future. A country, a movement, a person that does not value its youth and children does not deserve its future.”

Source : Speech by the Speaker of the National Assembly, Hon Baleka Mbete, at the Funeral Services of the Late Hon Timothy Khoza, in Mpumalanga, www.parliament.gov.za. August 12, 2017.

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