"Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it."

-- Robert Penn Warren

#Moving Quotes #May Quotes #Vices Quotes

“Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.”
“If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.”
“What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.”
“There's certain things like scripted dramas that - they're either topical or such water-cooler moments that I think that they'll be consumed within 48 hours. You don't have to consume them at 9:00 at night, but you want to consume them within the first couple of days so that you can talk to your friends about it.”
“A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not about political prestige or military power. This new race involves the whole human species in a contest against time. All of the people of the Earth are in a desperate race against disaster... To save the Earth we must look beyond it, to interplanetary space. To present the collapse of civilization and the end of the world as we know it, we must understand that our planet does not exist in isolation.”

Source : Ben Bova (1983). “The High Road”, Pocket
“I'll rise but I refuse to shine.”
“Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.”

Source : Benjamin Barber (2001). “Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy”, Ballantine Books
“If the new government rejects our urgent appeal, we will, next year, in solidarity with our people, intensify our struggle for self-determination, our struggle for national liberation to establish self-government in our homeland.”

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