"We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality."

-- Ann Richards

#Running Quotes #Reality Quotes #Order Quotes

“Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.”
“It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.”
“I've got big feet, so filling someone else's big shoes doesn't scare me.”
“Allowing the pain of personal growth to be a crucible of your spirit-the alchemical grail through which the metal of your former self turns into gold-is one of the highest callings of life. Pain can burn you up and destroy you, or burn you up and redeem you. It can deliver you to an entrenched despair, or deliver you to your higher self. At midlife we decide, consciously or unconsciously, the path of the victim or the path of the phoenix when it is rising up at last.”
“Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?”
“So now, all alone or not, you gotta walk ahead. Thing to remember is if we're all alone, then we're all together in that too.”
“I think the best acting is when you allow yourself to be kind of vulnerable in the moment.”
“I don't need shoes. I need a night scope. You think they sell night scopes someplace here?”

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