"The world would be a safer place, If someone had a plan, Before exploring outer space, To find the inner man."

-- Yip Harburg

#Men Quotes #Space Quotes #World Quotes

“I am very shy. When I go to a charity ball, I don't mind if people look at my sleeves. I mind terribly if I have to say something.”
“Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.”
“When was the last fast time you thanked the Lord for a trial or tribulation? Adversity compels us to go to our knees; does gratitude for adversity do that as well?”
“He who is devout to the Virgin Mother will certainly never be lost.”
“My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that.”
“History down through the centuries has proved again and again that there can be but one outcome to a struggle for selfish power against forces fighting to protect and advance human rights. Those genuinely serving humanity always ultimately emerge triumphant. It is under their standards that the [Western] allies choose to throw in their lot for humanity's defense.”
“Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I donâ€™t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while I await injunctions from the light or the dark; I wait for shapeliness limned, or dissolution. Is paradise due or narrowly missed until another thousand years? I wait in a blue hour and faraway noise of hammering, and on a page a poem begun, something about to be dispersed, something about to come into being.”

Source : Li-Young Lee (1990). “The City in which I Love You: Poems”, p.14, BOA Editions, Ltd.
“I don't engage in self-censorship. But I do change everybody to have red hair in the last draft. ... If you give people red hair when in real life they haven't got red hair, I've noticed they don't recognize themselves, anyway.”

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