"All those hints and glimpses of a larger and more satisfying democracy, which literature and our own hopes supply, have a tendency to slip away from us and to leave us sadly unguided and perplexed when we attempt to act upon them."

-- Jane Addams

#Democracy Quotes #Glimpse Quotes #Hints Quotes

“The world may think it idiotic, Nor care at all we're symbiotic, But I will say at once and twice: I find it nice. I find it nice.”
“Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.”
“The soul maintains it's deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds”
“Sympathy is the charm of human life ...”

Source : Grace Aguilar (1858). “The Mother's Recompense: a Sequel to Home Influence”, p.65
“Winter Song The browns, the olives, and the yellows died, And were swept up to heaven; where they glowed Each dawn and set of sun till Christmastide, And when the land lay pale for them, pale-snowed, Fell back, and down the snow-drifts flamed and flowed. From off your face, into the winds of winter, The sun-brown and the summer-gold are blowing; But they shall gleam with spiritual glinter, When paler beauty on your brows falls snowing, And through those snows my looks shall be soft-going.”
“They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.”
“He’s a fantastic talent and the complete footballer, probably the most coveted in the Premiership. It’s a privilege for the rest of us to be on the same field. If i could have anything i wanted for Christmas, i’d take Thierry Henry”
“My agency tells me I am rare because I sing, do movie trailers, and do cartoons too. I like that because it gives me variety in jobs. I don't just sit and do movie trailers, and I don't just do cartoons either. I can do both, and I feel very fortunate for that.”

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