"It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters."

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Sarah Dessen

#Lasts Quotes #Ugly Quotes #Moments Quotes

“I'm just happy I got a hole-in-one for the first time in my life.”
“I knew life Began where I stood in the dark, Looking out into the light.”

Source : Yusef Komunyakaa (1992). “Magic City”, p.24, Wesleyan University Press
“Some trials look as much like the trial of an ordinary criminal case as a Hitchcock film looks like a home movie.”
“Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.”
“We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish.”

Source : Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.
“Private enterprise is not as spectacular nor as easy to see as the socialist way of temporarily diffusing poverty by eating up the seed corn - the tools - which will increase poverty in the long run.”
“[Eva Braun] would also refer to [Adolf Hitler] as "the boss" (der Chef), but she never called him "Adolf" or "Adi" to anyone after the very early days. It was always der FÃ¼hrer.”
“Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering,”

Source : "To create for the ages, let's combine art and engineering". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2014.

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