"Summer is a Latvian chicken. We make foolish choices. We think weâ€™re young again. We run with outstretched arms toward an object of love and it pecks us and pecks us until weâ€™re standing there snot-nosed and teary in the middle of Astor Place and the sun sets fire to our Penguin shirts and all that is left to do is go to our air-conditioned homes and ponder the cruelty of our finest season."

-- Gary Shteyngart

#Summer Quotes #Running Quotes #Home Quotes

“I'm concerned, too, about ISIS' ability, right, to infiltrate people. But we have got some very effective, robust processes for vetting people. We brought in thousands of Iraqi refugees after the Iraq War. Not a single one has ever turned out to be a terrorist because the vetting was so good.”

Source : Source: abcnews.go.com
“I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.”
“Once you succeed in tennis, financially you become quite well off.”
“The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who demands love will be disappointed; that he who is greedy will not be fed; that he who seeks peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.”
“The civilization of the twentieth century cannot be universal except by being a dynamic synthesis of all the cultural values of all civilizations. It will be monstrous unless it is seasoned with the salt of negri-tude, for it will be without the savor of humanity.”

Source : Leopold Sedar Senghor (1965). “Prose and Poetry”
“Ciel: *Over Sebastian's 'dead' body* THAT'S AN ORDER! WAKE UP! RIGHT NOW! Sebastian: *thinking* But I am awake...”
“The bravest man in the universe Is the one who has forgiven first.”

Source : Song: The Bravest Man In The Universe, Album: The Bravest Man In The Universe, 2012
“On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of.... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.”

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