"It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet;Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit.The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever,But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather."

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Source : 'Bagpipe Music' (1938)

Louis MacNeice

#Fall Quotes #Blow Quotes #Glasses Quotes

“One thing I love is to do childrens hospital visits.”
“If you give voters a choice between a Democrat who promises to do nothing and a Republican who promises to do nothing, theyâ€™re generally going to side with the Republican, because theyâ€™re better at that than we are.”
“Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.”
“If you take action, you will be judged. There's no way around it. The alternative, of course, is much safer. To be ignored. Up to you.”
“Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.”
“It's better to regret what you have done than what you haven't.”

Source : "Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite". Book by Paul Arden, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2006.
“Frankly, I had enjoyed the warâ€¦ and why do people want peace if the war is so much fun?”
“Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights. One can say that the underlying creed of most Western democracies is to protect their people's freedom to realise their desires, as far as this is possible. It is remarkable that in such countries people do not feel very free. The second kind of freedom, freedom from desires, is celebrated only in some religious communities. It celebrates contentment, peace that is free from desires.”

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