"I don't have many possessions, apart from my books."

-- Gary Shteyngart

#Book Quotes #Possession Quotes

“This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.”
“Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.”
“Deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often even funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all.”

Source : FaceBook post by Julia Quinn from Jun 14, 2013
“The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf and Atlantic coast cities into pre- Katrina New Orleans - below sea level and facing super-hurricanes.”

Source : Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co
“Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.”

Source : Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.159, Shambhala Publications
“Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland.”
“falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.”
“I've never been one of those who is attracted to straight men. Like I always said, 'you're straight, so there's no point' and I have friends who are pursuers of the heterosexual men. They see it as conquests, which I think is a different thing and a more narcissistic thing. And not necessarily a healthy thing.”

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