"The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny."

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Source : George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.45

George Arnold

#Destiny Quotes #Glasses Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.”
“... if you take a risk, two things will happen. People will laugh at you. Or you'll be way ahead of everybody else. And if that's what you're in it for, then you gotta take that risk.”
“Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.”
“The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.”
“Baseball is green and safe. It has neither the street intimidation of basketball nor the controlled Armageddon of football.... Baseball is a green dream that happens on summer nights in safe places in unsafe cities.”
“Thinkin' of a master plan Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand.”
“If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.”
“President Reagan rushed home from Santa Barbara vacation, from the Reagan ranch when the Korean jetliner was shot out of the air by the Russians.”

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