"Where we hope to land (and where we do land, though only for a fleeting moment, enough for tired wings to catch the wind anew) is a 'there' which we thought of little and knew of even less."

-- Zygmunt Bauman

#Tired Quotes #Wind Quotes #Land Quotes

“A number of U.S. colleges are going to start having dorms for alcoholics. I believe those are called dorms.”
“Based on the people l've spoken to, I think the impression is: Is America safer from Al Qaeda? Yes. Is America weaker as a nation because we have overspent and over-focused on Al Qaeda? Yes. I think that would be the conclusion that people seem to have come to and that I tend to agree with.”

Source : "Inside Libya: A Conversation with NBC's Richard Engel". Interview with Nurit Zunger, www.gq.com. September 1, 2011.
“I'd like to thank my wife, Anna. I love you more than rainbows, baby”

Source : The 82nd Annual Academy Awards acceptance speech, www.imdb.com. 2010.
“Of course! Jeb Bush! America is hungry for another leader from that talented family!”
“Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.”

Source : Laurell K. Hamilton (2008). “Blood Noir: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.324, Penguin
“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.”
“There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.”
“When I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a group, or I wanted to work for Greenpeace, or I wanted to be a Buddhist monk. Those were the only three things I really wanted to do. I was doing some sort of soul searching in life.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

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