"Life like an empty dream flits by."

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#Dream Quotes #Empty Quotes

“The world doesn't pay you for what you know, it pays you for what you do.”
“Say that Congress legislates gasoline price controls that sets a maximum price of $1 a gallon. As sure as night follows day, there'd be long lines and gasoline shortages, just as there were in the 1970s. For the average consumer, a $1.60 a gallon selling price and no waiting lines is a darn sight cheaper than a controlled $1 a gallon price plus searching for a gasoline station that has gas and then waiting in line. If your average purchase is 10 gallons, and if an hour or so of your time is worth more that $6, the $1.60 a gallon free market price is cheaper.”
“A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.”

Source : "Speculations: Essays on Humanism and the Philosophy of Art". Book by T. E. Hulme, 1924.
“History may be accurate. But archaeology is precise.”

Source : "Organized hunts for Civil War relics raise dust between participants, historians" by Brigid Schulte, www.sfgate.com. April 30, 2006.
“Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.”
“All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.”
“We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.”

Source : "Novelist-playwright Ariel Dorfman". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 1, 2011.
“Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.”

Source : John Stott (2015). “TNTC Letters of John”, p.160, SPCK

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