"And it seemed hard to believe that these people who were so close to me couldnâ€™t see how desperate I was, or if they could they didnâ€™t care enough to do anything about it, or if they cared enough to do anything about it they didnâ€™t believe there was anything they could do, not knowingâ€”or not wanting to knowâ€”that their belief might have been the thing that made the difference."

-- Elizabeth Wurtzel

#Believe Quotes #Differences Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“Faith becomes the foundation I'm built on.”
“I'd hesitated to have a wedding because my gay and lesbian friends don't have that right.”
“Information on UFOs, including sighting reports, has been and is still being officially withheld.”
“love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.”
“One little secret of the guys who have won one slam, is that we don't want other guys to win one because its like a bit of a special fraternity.”
“Ripe for romance? Is that not only the self-conscious and sensitive young man's way of saying he was heavy with passion? Is not, perhaps, romance only the fiction by means of which the tender-minded negotiate their lust?”

Source : Trevanian (2005). “The Summer of Katya: A Novel”, p.9, Crown
“The sport to which I owe so much has undergone profound changes, but it's still baseball. Kids still imitate their heroes on playgrounds. Fans still ruin expensive suits going after foul balls that cost five dollars. Hitting streaks still make the network news and hot dogs still taste better at the ballpark than at home.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.”

Source : Inscape Journal Interview, inscape.byu.edu.

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