"Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates."

-- Meg Whitman

#Might Quotes #Valleys Quotes #Given Quotes

“Knowledge, whatever the form, could be as effective as a weapon.”

Source : Maria V. Snyder (2008). “The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study”, p.189, MIRA
“We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you say 'Yes, it happened, and there's nothing I can do about it,' the sooner you can get on with your own life. You've got children to bring up. So you've got to get over it. What we have to get over, somehow we do. Even the worst things.”

Source : "The Shipping News". Book by Annie Proulx, 1993.
“Other human rights atrocities from African slavery to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan Genocides are all of course to be remembered, but diluting their particularity or comparing degrees of evil does no good.”

Source : "Jeremy Corbyn antisemitism speech in full: Labour leader vows to stamp out 'hateful language or debate' The Labour leader welcomed a response recommending immediate action for the Labour" by Lizzie Dearden, www.independent.co.uk. June 30, 2016.
“I've learned that each day is definitely a gift.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.”
“When God takes your straw, it isnâ€™t because he wants you to remain a slave. Itâ€™s because he wants you to take another step toward freedom.”
“I believe that one's basic financial attitudes are - like a tendency toward fat knees - probably formed in utero, or, at the very latest, in cribbo.”
“Give me hunger, pain and want, Shut me out with shame and failure From your doors of gold and fame, Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! But leave me a little love.”

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