"You're responsible for yourself. You messed up your life, and it's up to you to fix it. No one else is going to do it for you -- for any of you."

-- Louis Sachar

#Responsible Quotes #Messed Up Quotes

“Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.”
“Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors of childhood, the dangerous passions of adults, into her own honey-dusk 'voodun': protective, purified to gold. Poetry is always a time machine: here we are invisible travelers to a bewitched past, a beautifully occluded future. These poems are erotic, vertiginous, revelatory, their dazzling lyric force reflecting profound hermetic life.”
“Chashkin Sar was virgin, and we climbed it for the first time, and afterwards, the people renamed it as Samina Baig.”
“Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column.”
“Even non-commercial media rely on transferring cost to users through licence fees, donations from listeners, viewers, or readers, or grants from companies and foundations that have wrestled their funds from the public in some form of earlier commercial activity.”
“It doesn't matter what you've done in the past - what matters are the choices you make right now. God gives you the chance to start over with every breath.”
“I think we're infinite beings. We have to stay limitless.”
“Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.”

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