"Above the clouds I lift my wing To hear the bells of Heaven ring; Some of their music, though my fights be wild, To Earth I bring; Then let me soar and sing!"

-- Edmund Clarence Stedman

#Fighting Quotes #Clouds Quotes #Wings Quotes

“If you do believe in science, you really have to actually stand up and make a stand for it. You can't just say, the facts aren't in. Science is always looking for better explanations to everything, but that doesn't mean that when we get on a plane we don't know what's supposed to happen next. And if it doesn't go the way that it's planned, that's a big, big problem. The culture wars are very tricky and make me a little sad.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“What man is happy? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature.”
“Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy.”

Source : "This Is Our Moment" by Rep. Keith Ellison, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2011.
“I don't like coffee but I need caffeine.”
“Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a genie in tense, tiny black symbols on a calm white page. If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form, whole and alive, fully adapted to its new environment.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mary Gaitskill from May 15, 2012
“UNICEF is successfully giving children and young people all over the world opportunities and hope. Just like the ones we met on the Long Way Down - protecting them from exploitation and giving them chances in life.”
“My work is getting stronger & stronger and more intense all the time.... I have such a rush of new energy & notions coming into my head, over my horizon like chariots of fire that all I want is freedom to step aside and execute them.”
“There is a god. Nothing as tragic and ridiculous as this world could have happened by random chance.”

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