"What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing."

-- Lady Gregory

#May Quotes #Blind Quotes #Week Quotes

“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State.”
“Most people can't handle boredom. That means they can't stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder why they're unhappy.”
“Ronnie Barker was a straightforward man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh”
“Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.”

Source : Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan
“I always see the filming as basically going to the grocery store and buying a bunch of ingredients and that's about as far from having a dinner as you can possibly be. Then editing is the cooking, the preparation of the meal and if you don't edit it you've just got a pile of raw meat.”

Source : Source: www.tvequals.com
“I certainly haven't lived the life of a Buddhist monk.”
“Diets are a foolâ€™s errand. I eat something sweet every day, whether itâ€™s chocolate or a cookie. If I donâ€™t, I guarantee you that thereâ€™s going to be a day every week when Iâ€™m going to stuff myself, especially if itâ€™s PMS time.”
“Richard Nixon was not the lesser evil, he was the greater evil, but in his administration the war was finally brought to an end, because he had to deal with the power of the anti-war movement as well as the power of the Vietnamese movement. I will vote, but always with a caution that voting is not crucial, and organizing is the important thing.”

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