"Even to me, as I was trying to tell the government what had happened, it just didn't seem to matter."

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Source : "Larry King Weekend", edition.cnn.com. January 26, 2002.

Patty Hearst

#Government Quotes #Trying Quotes #Matter Quotes

“What exists beneath the sea?I'd always pictured it in colors of emerald and aquamarine, where black velvet fish with sequined eyes swim among plankton.But, when my eyes adjust, I see gray stones, lost anchors, wet wood, buttons, hooks, and eyes, the salem witches who wouldn't float, stars and stripes, missing vessels, windup toys, the souls of Romeo and Juliet, peaches, cream, pistons, screams, cages of ribs and birds, tunnels, nutcracker soldiers, satin bows, drugstore signs, Pandora box ripped open at its hinges.”

Source : Kelly Easton (2001). “The Life History of a Star”, p.163, Simon and Schuster
“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.”
“Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society.”
“Faith talks in the language of God. Doubt talks in the language of man.”

Source : E.W. Kenyon (2016). “What We Are in Christ”, p.65, BookBaby
“The fact is that philosophy has been a decisive source of inspiration in all the great crises that Europe has faced. It has been so in the time that preceded the fall of the Roman Empire, when Augustine of Hippo delineated the features of a new spiritual civilization; in the age of religious wars, when Descartes and Hobbes established the principles of modern science and politics; and at the turn of the French Revolution, interpreted by Kant and Hegel as an event destined to change the history of the world.”
“I've never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I've never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.”
“Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.”
“Men with discrimination will be viewed as schemers; second, men with deep far-sightedness will be seen as cowards; and third, men with rough behaviour will be mistaken for real warriors. These are great errors.”

Source : "Ideals of the Samurai: Writings of Japanese Warriors". Book by William Scott Wilson, p. 92, 1982.

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