"He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning."

-- Harper Lee

#Morning Quotes #Night Quotes #Light Quotes

“Are you gonna follow your soul? Or just the style of the day?”

Source : "Song: Soul (Fleeting Days)". March 4, 2003.
“That’s the really annoying thing about love. I probably would be happier if I didn’t know it, but once you do know it, once you feel those things for someone, you can’t make yourself really wish it away. It’s like wishing away . . . your soul. - Jenny”
“It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.”
“I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.”

Source : "Some Szilardisms on War, Fame, Peace". Life magazine, Vol. 51, No. 9, p. 79, September 01, 1961.
“The observations, so numerous and so important, of the pendulum as object are especially relevant to the length of its oscillations. Those that I propose to make known to the [Paris] Academy [of Sciences] are principally addressed to the direction of the plane of its oscillation, which, moving gradually from east to west, provides evidence to the senses of the diurnal movement of the terrestrial globe.”
“To achieve all that is possible, we must attempt the impossible. To be all we can be, we must dream of being more.”
“Poor dusky children of slavery, men and women of my own race-the transition from slavery to freedom was too sudden for you! The bright dreams were too rudely dispelled; you were not prepared for the new life that opened before you, and the great masses of the North learned to look upon your helplessness with indifference-learned to speak of you as an idle, dependent race. Reason should have prompted kinder thoughts. Charity is ever kind.”

Source : Elizabeth Keckley (2016). “Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House”, p.52, Enhanced Media Publishing
“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”

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