"Our efforts cannot and should not substitute for just public policies and effective programs to meet the needs of the hungry...Money, food, and time donated to Catholic charities should not be misread as a sign for success for volunteerism, but rather a desperate attempt to feed the hungry people when others have abandoned their responsibility."

-- John Ricard

#Responsibility Quotes #People Quotes #Effort Quotes

“The search is in the doing.”
“I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style!”
“You could say that all of life is a series of last chances.”
“Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatedly) 'Ever to confess you're bored means you have no inner Resources.' I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored.”
“the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags.”

Source : Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”
“Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really distinguish the ingredients.”
“What matters most is not what I think I am or am not. What matters is what my Father sees in me and what He says about me.”
“I like the light that comes off metal shutters at siesta time in the summer, having a break from driving in the shops at motorway services, the odour of petrol at petrol stations, rolling down little slopes. I hate it when you tread in a puddle and the water soaks your socks.”

Source : "Here's looking at you, kid" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2001.

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