"Christianity has not failed. It is simply that nations have failed to try it. There would be no war in a God-directed world."

-- Richard E. Byrd

#War Quotes #Trying Quotes #World Quotes

“I read slave narratives, books like Bullwhip Days, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. [The Root's chairman] Henry Louis Gates has an amazing documentary called Many Rivers to Cross - really, his whole writings; he's such a wealth of knowledge.”

Source : "Jurnee Smollett-Bell Gets Deep About Underground, a Slave Narrative That Will Make You Proud to Be Black". Interview with Ronda Racha Penrice, www.theroot.com. March 9, 2016.
“We're not all robots. There are emotions that creep in.”

Source : Source: thebiglead.com
“The final mystery is oneself.”
“There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.”

Source : Roger Zelazny (2016). “This Immortal”, p.100, ibooks
“I think it is all about creating characters, mixing them up with the stars and the light-years, and coming back to Earth, because we're from this universe. We're not just New York or London; we're stars.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I'd bowled a lot, but I never really had proper lessons.”
“Art lies because it's social.”
“Environmental problems provoke challenges about what kind of world we want, how important we think it is if something is brought about by human action or by brute nature, what we think of the value of human life compared to that of other living things.”

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