"Big writers become a kind of shared climate."

-- Adam Gopnik

#Writing Quotes #Climate Quotes #Kind Quotes

“Men in Government monopolize the necessary use of force; they are not using their energies productively; they are not milking cows. To get butter, they must use guns; they have nothing else to use.”
“She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.”
“there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.”
“We love being in business with Guillermo [Del Toro]and frankly that movie, if you look it up, did I think more business than the first X-Men, did more than Batman Begins, our first movie, did more than Superman Returns, The Fast and the Furious, Star Trek- so for a movie that was an original property that we made up it's done really well.”
“The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart.”

Source : Interview with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com.
“Flyfishing does have its social aspects - on some of our crowded trout streams it can get too social - but esentially it's a solitary, contemplative sport. People are left alone with themselves in beautiful surroundings to try to accomplish something that seems to have genuine value.”
“That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age.”
“It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere...That's the world! On which hope sits!”

Source : "Misrepresenting Obama's audiobook, Hannity claimed Obama said, 'White folks' greed runs a world in need'" by Varun Piplani, www.mediamatters.org. August 21, 2008.

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