"President Obama is traveling around the country, proposing a stimulus bill that has already failed once. Instead of having an honest discussion about whether or not a plan that already failed once will fail again, the establishment would rather distract the American people with gossip."

-- Alveda King

#Country Quotes #People Quotes #Gossip Quotes

“We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.”
“Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. Its not glam.”
“You are as responsible for what you let happen as for the actions you share.”

Source : Joan Slonczewski (1985). “A Door Into Ocean”, Arbor House Publishing Company
“Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.”
“Perhaps for the first time in history, human-kind has the capacity to create far more information than anyone can absorb; to foster far greater interdependency than anyone can manage, and to accelerate change far faster than anyone's ability to keep pace.”
“Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.”

Source : Jane Rule (2013). “Lesbian Images: Essays”, p.20, Open Road Media
“From the moon, the Earth is so small and so fragile, and such a precious little spot in that Universe, that you can block it out with your thumb. Then you realize that on that spot, that little blue and white thing, is everything that means anything to you â€” all of history and music and poetry and art and death and birth and love, tears, joy, games, all of it right there on that little spot that you can cover with your thumb. And you realize from that perspective that youâ€™ve changed forever, that there is something new there, that the relationship is no longer what it was.”

Source : "Reflections From Paris and Beirut" by Samie Al-Achrafi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2015.
“I want to play until the end.”

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