"Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance...."

-- Denise Levertov

#Redemption Quotes #Speech Quotes #Sparks Quotes

“It can be here today and gone tomorrow.”
“I'm visiting my high school. Every half year I do the exams, and then this year I'm going to graduate.”
“If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above?”

Source : Elizabeth Bear (2012). “Range of Ghosts”, p.289, Macmillan
“Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent. Technology will not change that, for even in the starchiest heyday of Victorian self-improvement, libraries were intended to be meeting places of the mind, recreational as well as educational.”
“Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.”

Source : Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.160, Courier Corporation
“On the science of global climate change, I'm an agnostic. I've seen Al Gore's movie, and I've read reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I've also listened to the 'skeptics.' I don't know who's right.”
“You can't please everyone, and trying to is the kiss of death. I don't care about Wayne Newton's demographics. When I do, I'll know that it's time to quit.”
“The love of your life won't be the man you end up with, and you'll always compare the two.”

Source : Kristan Higgins (2013). “The Best Man”, p.199, HQN Books

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