"Obviously, there's the temptation to sit back and smile, .. But there's so much at stake, we have to do our due diligence."

-- Ralph Neas

#Temptation Quotes #Due Diligence Quotes #Diligence Quotes

“I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village.”

Source : Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”
“Escaping into the fantasy of intellectual investigation or narrative story telling makes me feel hopeful. That too is a fiction, but one that makes me feel good sometimes.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“I pray, but who I pray to I'm not exactly sure, especially when I'm praying for more money.”

Source : Interview with David Jacob Kramer, believermag.com. June 1, 2009.
“[Sex] is something big and cosmic. What else do we have? There's only birth and death and the union of two people - and sex is the only one that happens to us more than once.”
“She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.”
“You are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day.”
“I have committed myself to joy. I have come to realize that those who make space for joy, those who prefer nothing to joy, those who desire the utter reality, will most assuredly have it. We must not be afraid to announce it to refugees, slum dwellers, saddened prisoners, angry prophets. Now and then we must even announce it to ourselves. In this prison of now, in this cynical and sophisticated age, someone must believe in joy.”
“I love Australia passionately. I love our landscape. It's influenced most of my work, really. Almost everything I've written is about the landscape. Trying to find, the sacred, the spiritual in it.”

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