"Normally I didnâ€™t see a great deal. I didnâ€™t hear a great deal either. I didnâ€™t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasnâ€™t there. Strictly speaking I believe Iâ€™ve never been anywhere."

-- Samuel Beckett

#Believe Quotes #Attention Quotes #Pay Quotes

“I see myself as a small 'l' liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.”
“I was a bookworm, and very skinny with big, thick glasses. I never went on dates and guys were afraid of me because I was smart. So I got contact lenses, started to dress a little better and tried not to talk about Plato with boys. It worked!”
“Over time, the repetition, Donald Trump's lies about election rigging, have become a form of background noise, more of the same. And this is a propaganda technique, whether Trump knows it or not.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
“But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.”

Source : Karl Jay Shapiro, Stanley Kunitz, David Ignatow (1998). “The Wild Card: Selected Poems, Early and Late”, p.18, University of Illinois Press
“When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all around them and in between the hills there was a wide expanse of black bog. Stephen had never seen a landscape so calculated to reduce the onlooker to utter despair in an instant. "This is one of your kingdoms, I suppose, sir?" he said. "My kingdoms?" exclaimed the gentleman in surprize. "Oh, no! This is Scotland!”
“Fear that comes from personal experience is far more real than fear based on someone else's ordeal.”

Source : Peg Kehret (2015). “Escaping the Giant Wave”, p.69, Simon and Schuster
“Today the impulse towards interdependence is immeasurably greater. We are witnessing the beginnings of a new doctrine of international community”
“At this day . . . the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of Deity deposited in human nature as a means of suppressing the name of God. Can anything be more detestable than this madness in man, who, finding God a hundred times both in his body and his soul, makes his excellence in this respect a pretext for denying that there is a God? He will not say that chance has made him different from the brutes; . . . but, substituting Nature as the architect of the universe, he suppresses the name of God.”

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