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“Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.”
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“But beware, dear reader. For we go out into the wide, wild world, looking to change, looking to grow, looking for wisdom. But wisdom is hard to come by, and once achieved, it is very easily lost. Especially when one is leaving the wide, wild world - and returning to the place you once fled.”
Source : Adam Gidwitz (2012). “In a Glass Grimmly”, p.110, Penguin
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“One of the things that I've worked my way out of doing, and I knew that I needed to, was comparing myself to other people. That just poisins everything. It all of a sudden dtermines even clothes you're going to choose to wear that day or what you're going to do with a music production or how you're going to sequence it. It poisinseverything. Your real job in the world is to be you. Comparing yourself to other people I think that hurt me more than anything. Allowing myself to go there so much in my head hurt me.”
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“I think what love is changes over time, as you grow older, learn more, do more.”
Source : Dorothy Koomson (2011). “The Woman He Loved Before”, p.158, Hachette UK
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“He who says, "I know no fear," is no hero. No man knows courage unless he does know fear, and has that in him which is superior to fear, and conquers it.”
Source : Lyman Abbott (2009). “The Theology of an Evolutionist”, p.118, Cambridge University Press
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“They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.”
Source : "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" l. 21 (1871)
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“Here we will have possibly a bunch of tax dodgers deciding the election.”
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“The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.”
Source : "A Bend in the River". Book by V. S. Naipaul, May 1979.
