"Pastor Veronica told the story of a sparrow lying in the street with its legs straight up in the air, straining. a warhorse walks up to it, and says, 'What on earth are you doing?' The sparrow replies, 'I heard the sky was falling, and I wanted to help.'The warhorse sneers-- 'Do you really think you're going to hold back the sky, with those scrawny little legs?' And the sparrow says, 'One does what one can.'"

-- Anne Lamott

#Lying Quotes #Fall Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I wish the fire burned my leg hair off”
“Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.”
“I think to get society to act as a whole, people need inspiration.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand across my plate for me to shake, sometimes when I have a bite of food in my mouth. I find this a bit disturbing”
“When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alternative is for the audience to be presented with a final deduction (...) no effort on their part. What can it mean to them when they have not shared with the author the misery and joy of bringing an image into being?”
“It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.”
“For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.”
“I don't speak Arabic - I know a little to get by, but that's all.”

Source : "Ask the Filmmaker". Live chat, www.pbs.org. September 21, 2010.

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