"The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars."

-- Giotto di Bondone

#Broken Heart Quotes #Stars Quotes #Wish Quotes

“That's one component: rather than creating job-training pipelines that put these kids at the back of the line for the last century's pollution-based jobs, we need to be creating opportunities for them to be at the front of the line for the new clean and green jobs.”
“Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we canâ€™t predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws.”
“I get scared as crap to perform but I push myself to do it. I don't know what I would be doing without it.”
“For most countries, serving the UN's objectives has never seemed worth even the smallest of risks. Member nations do not want a large, reputable, strong and independent United Nations, no matter their hypocritical pronouncements otherwise. What they want is a weak, beholden, indebted scapegoat of an organization, which they can blame for their failures or steal victories from.”

Source : "Shake Hands with the Devil". Book by Roméo Dallaire, 2003.
“We urgently need a debate about the best ways of supporting families in modern America, without blinders that prevent us from seeing the full extent of dependence and interdependence in American life. As long as we pretend that only poor or abnormal families need outside assistance, we will shortchange poor families, overcompensate rich ones, and fail to come up with effective policies for helping families in the middle.”

Source : Stephanie Coontz (2016). “The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap”, p.73, Basic Books
“Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.”

Source : Ron Franscell (2011). “Sourtoe Cocktail Club: The Yukon Odyssey of a Father and Son in Search of a Mummified Human Toe ... and Everything Else”, p.31, Rowman & Littlefield
“The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real.”
“You are a shelf of books without the pages.”

Source : Song: Let Me In, Album: Home, 2012

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