"All fires burn out at last."

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Source : Sigrid Undset (1927). “The cross”

Sigrid Undset

#Fire Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Burn Out Quotes

“Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.”
“When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.”
“I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.”
“being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.”
“The First Amendment, I think, is the jewel of our Constitution.”

Source : "Alito: Threat to Judicial Independence at Historic High" by Michael Scholl, October 4, 2006.
“You can never make yourself believe that you're loveable, however hard you try, because when the chips are down what you really believe rises to the surface of the mind to replace what you want to believe.”
“We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly, so we know that we're only given eighty summers or so per lifetime, and each one has to be better then the last, has to encompass a trip to that arts center up at Bard, a seemingly mellow game of badminton over at some yahoo's Vermont cottage, and a cool, wet, slightly dangerous kayak trip down an unforgiving river. Otherwise, how would you know that you have lived your summertime best? What is you missed out on some morsel of shaded nirvana?”
“Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.”

Source : Seth Godin (2006). “Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas”, p.201, Penguin

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