"The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day."

-- Cormac McCarthy

#Flower Quotes #Night Quotes #Men Quotes

“Some of us learn from other peopleâ€™s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.”
“If you will make time with God your first priority, everything else in your life will fall into place.”
“A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.”

Source : Joe Haldeman (2014). “The Forever War”, p.133, Open Road Media
“I don't approve of what Wall Street and the wealthy have done to this country, but they are the very ones buying my paintings.”
“You cannot forget the past but you can forgive it.”
“My time in prison only deepened my resolve against apartheid. Even while I was in prison, I fought against it, teaching my cellmates about white supremacy and how to fight against it.”
“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.”
“There are only two things to remember. Number one...Don't Stop, and number two...Keep Going!”

Source : Frank Zappa (2011). “Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention - One Size Fits All (Songbook)”, p.6, Hal Leonard Corporation

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