"There's as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail."

-- Morris Sheppard

#War Quotes #Drug Quotes #Washington Monument Quotes

“Who you spend time with is who you become! Change your life by consciously choosing to surround yourself with people with higher standards!”
“I respectfully ask that the media allow me to receive care and heal in private during this difficult time.”
“Until you understand your Core Story, whatever it is, and how it made you who you are today, your foundation will reflect only your unconscious beliefs about yourself, real or imagined, positive or negative. When you delve into your subconscious beliefs about your lot in life, whether you believe you deserve to be happy or sad, successful or unsuccessful, only then do you have the chance to change the story that is replaying over and over in your head and determining how you go through life.”
“I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing God's poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to Gore's and Norman's generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains.”
“It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have.”
“Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.”
“I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies.”
“The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.”

Source : Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.151, Macmillan

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