"What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences."

-- Al Gore

#Change Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Hurricanes Quotes

“Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.”
“Many writers-in-waiting spend a lot of time avoiding the work at hand. The most common way to avoid writing is by procrastination. This is the writer's greatest enemy. There is little to say about it except that once you decide to write every day, you must make yourself sit at the desk or table for the required period whether or not you are putting down words. Make yourself take the time even if the hours seem fruitless. Ideally, after a few days or weeks of being chained to the desk, you will submit to the story that must be told.”
“I was never a Republican, because those gentlemen, distinguished as they are, have only one real interest, and that is the making of special laws in order to protect their fortunes. I also know they have no compassion for the masses of the people in this country who are without money and who are, many of them, without food or houses. I have always thought that only as a Democrat, reflecting Jefferson and Jackson, could justice ever be done the people because, at this moment in history, ours is the only party which is even faintly responsive to the force of ideas.”
“The gnosis of God is intermediate between immoderation, which is ascribing human characteristics to God, and negligence, which is denying any attributes to God. . . The Truth lies in the balance between the two extremes.”
“I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.”
“Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.”
“Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.”

Source : Anzia Yezierska (1950). “Red ribbon on a white horse”
“My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.”

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