"And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-lamps in the town."

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Source : Frank Dempster Sherman (1917). “The Poems of Frank Dempster Sherman”

Frank Dempster Sherman

#Torches Quotes #Lamps Quotes #Golden Quotes

“I'm not a player, I'm an alien...My focus is on winning championships. I don't focus on anything else. Aliens only want to win championships.”
“Each day is a new life. Each moment is really a new life. What we call memories are really present thoughts. What we call anticipations are really present thoughts. No one has ever lived in any moment except the present.”

Source : Emmet Fox (1946). “Make your life worth while”, Harper San Francisco
“Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.”
“Because of my personal history, my professional skills and my business achievements, I am a man nobody can expect to compare himself with.”
“My house got flooded in Los Angeles and completely ruined it. People asked how did your house flood on the hills in LA? It was a plumbing problem that the landlord didn't fix, so everything got ruined there. It's one of those things where you take the opportunity and run with it. My producers are here and we're working on the new album here, and I was here all of the time so it made sense to spend some time here, so we'll just see what happens. It's definitely very different.”
“If the fact that people make poor decisions is reason enough for the government to second-guess their decisions about dangerous activities such as smoking cigarettes and riding motorcycles, why on earth should the government let people make their own choices when it comes to such consequential matters as where to live, how much education to get, whom to marry, whether to have children, which job to take, or what religion to practice?”
“I canâ€™t be sure, of course, but Iâ€™d compare it to living on tofu and soy milk; we call ourselves vegetarians, our little inside joke. - Edward Cullen”
“Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.”

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