"Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me."

-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#Strong Quotes #Holiday Quotes #Winter Quotes

“Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.”
“The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it...”
“Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing.”
“The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.”
“Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatical about [the goto statement]. I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are making a religion out of it, as if the conceptual problems of programming could be solved by a single trick, by a simple form of coding discipline!”

Source : Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe (2011). “Being George Washington: The Indispensable Man, As You've Never Seen Him”, p.181, Simon and Schuster
“The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.”
“The choices we make, dictate the lives we lead”
“It's sort of a fine line where you're dying to express it and then hoping no one really gets it that closely. But I'm pretty much over that. I'd really just like to be understood.”

Source : "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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