"...to experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself...the boredom of insanity was a great desert, so great that anyone's violence or agony seemed an oasis, and the brief companionship seemed like a rain in the desert that was numbered and counted and remembered long after it was gone."

-- Joanne Greenberg

#Rain Quotes #Reality Quotes #Agony Quotes

“One of the most violent attacks on the Church in the Soviet Union was under Kruschev when, during a period of economic and political liberalization, he attacked the Church to demonstrate to old Party members that he hadn't lost it.”

Source : "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.
“Your age doesn't define your maturity; your grades don't define your ability; and what people say about you doesn't define who you are.”

Source : Twitter post from May 06, 2016
“In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a branch./ I laugh, as I see him abandon himself/ To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do/ That the branch will not break.”

Source : James Wright (2011). “Collected Poems”, p.125, Wesleyan University Press
“It's impossible for us to forecast what's going to happen ten years from now and make a decision today to say what we're going to do.”
“Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up?”
“I see no reason to believe that the Vietnamese Communist Party will lose control over the reins of power in Vietnam. There is no organized force in the country that is capable of competing with the VCP for power. And the party still believes that it must rule by intimidation and by dominating the political scene In effect, it has abandoned that part of Ho Chi Minh's legacy that the people must be won over by persuasion rather than by force - a dictum that Ho Chi Minh did not always follow himself.”
“A senior always feels like the university is going to the kids.”
“We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.”

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