"Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; Run the rapid and leap the fall, Split at the rock, and together again Accept my bed, or narrow or wide, And flee from folly on every side With a lover's pain to attain the plain, Far from the hills of Habersham, Far from the valleys of Hall."

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Source : Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.24, University of Georgia Press

Sidney Lanier

#Running Quotes #Pain Quotes #Fall Quotes

“When you have only 10 episodes to do and you know there's so many fun things that you have left unresolved, you have to figure out what happens to all of your supporting characters.”
“The foaminess of the Falls, together with the tinge of tawny yellow in the troubled waters, only reminded me of so much unattainable soda and sherry, and made me feel thirstier than ever.”

Source : 1865 On seeing Niagara Falls for the first time. My Diary in America in theMidst ofWar.
“We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us.”

Source : Robert James Waller (2013). “The Bridges Of Madison County”, p.114, Random House
“We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it”
“Even to play a dead body; that'd be an easy gig.”
“To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.”

Source : "China’s Olympic Crossroads: Author Ma Jian on Beijing, Spectacle and Reality". Interview with Flora Zhang, beijing2008.blogs.nytimes.com. August 5, 2008.
“You ask why London has to 'stand for' anything. One response is that in fact it always inevitably does. One could say at the moment it stands for a complex mix of multiculturalism and financial power. Interestingly, that is a political mix of progressive and oppressive. What I'm arguing is simply that we should take responsibility for the effects of 'our place' around the world. To take responsibility for our embeddedness. If you don't want to, so be it. It does demand an imaginative engagement with our planetary interdependence and that can be quite challenging.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner.”

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