"My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between."

-- Tom Chapin

#Song Quotes #Real Quotes #Hero Quotes

“Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God.”
“She leaned forward and kissed me on the lips. He mouth was cold, her lips rough from the winter wind, and if the mystics are right and we are doomed to repeat our squalid lives ad infinitum, at least I will always return to that kiss”

Source : David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.179, Penguin
“The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corresponds with the right reason, and it is not merely the creature of fancy.”
“The world has physical limits that we are already encountering, but our economy operates as if no physical limits exist.”

Source : "The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future Of Our Economy, Energy, And Environment". Book by Christopher Martenson, February 14, 2011.
“I didn't have this rebellious streak in me. To me, I'm a product of circumstance.”
“This kingdom of God life is not a matter of waking up each morning with a list of chores or an agenda to be tended to, left on our bedside table by the Holy Spirit for us while we slept. We wake up already immersed in a large story of creation and covenant, of Israel and Jesus, the story of Jesus and the stories that Jesus told. We let ourselves be formed by these formative stories, and especially as we listen to the stories that Jesus tells, get a feel for the way he does it, the way he talks, the way he treats people, the Jesus way.”
“I would be quite happy to see the Northern Alliance steam across northern Afghanistan and take Kabul.”

Source : "British troops in Afghanistan", www.cnn.com. November 11, 2001.
“In the early days of the video game business, everybody played. The question is, what happened? My theory - and I think it's pretty well borne out - is that in the '80s, games got gory, and that lost the women. And then they got complex, and that lost the casual gamer.”

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