"We were all born with wings. In times of doubt: spread them."

-- Kevin Myers

#Wings Quotes #Doubt Quotes #Born Quotes

“You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect.”
“Don't be 'practical' in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.”

Source : 1909 Socialism Made Easy.
“I just know I'm too much of a wuss for Stephen King's books. I'm way too chicken to read horror.”
“May the Mother of Jesus and our Mother, always smile on your spirit, obtaining for it, from her Most Holy Son, every heavenly blessing.”
“Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.”
“Never allow gradually the traffic to smother with noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.”

Source : Stephen Spender (2015). “Selected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.23, Faber & Faber
“Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint: Things least to be believed are most preferred. All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint, Are readily believed if once put down in print”
“Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence.”

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