"Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that."

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Source : Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.173, Random House

Erin Morgenstern

#Stones Quotes #Unexpected Quotes #Remember Quotes

“I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I donâ€™t remember seeing and I look up at it. All it says is 'Disappear Here' and even though itâ€™s probably an ad for some resort, it still freaks me out a little and I step on the gas really hard and the car screeches as I leave the light.”
“Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real. Therefore, atheism shifts the basis of morality from faith in god to obligations of social living. Moral conduct is not a passport to heaven; it is social necessity.”

Source : "Atheism: Questions and Answers". Book by Goparaju Ramachandra Rao, 1980.
“I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal? I really don't know. There's nothing there on the scale of Hiroshima.”
“It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias”

Source : Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.59, Criss Jami
“I admire the Shabbat tradition, and no matter which faith you are of, there is nothing more wonderful than dedicating a certain day to spend time with your family and loved ones, absent of TV, phone, and other interruptions.”
“There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth.”

Source : Auguste Rodin, Paul Gsell (1983). “Rodin on Art and Artists: Conversations with Paul Gsell”, p.20, Courier Corporation
“Well, I'm playing for the fans so whenever they come and ask for autographs I always try to give it to everybody because I'm out there for the people.”
“I heard the prophet Joseph Smith say the time would come when this nation would so far depart from its original purity, its glory, and its love for freedom and its protection of civil rights and religious rights, that the Constitution of our country would hang as it were by a thread. He said, also, that this people, the sons of Zion, would rise up and save the Constitution and bear it off triumphantly.”

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