"I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind."

-- Tony Hillerman

#Mind Quotes #Trying Quotes #Stories Quotes

“During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebration. Because whatever the consequences, people, standing side by side, have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that...”
“And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.”

Source : Annie Proulx (2008). “The Shipping News: A Novel”, p.337, Simon and Schuster
“It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.”
“If you're in the mood for a blushing art house romance, you'll fall for it, too.”
“. . .nothing is more important than freedom. Nothing is more sacred than freedom. Nothing is greater than freedom. Nothing. . .can be permitted to stand in the way of freedom. Freedom. . .is all that makes men great. It is all men have to live for. Without freedom, what good is life?”

Source : Roy Wilkins, Tom Mathews (1982). “Standing Fast: The Autobiography of Roy Wilkins”, Viking Adult
“A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine.”
“The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, and software has been treated as a form of speech ever since. So if software code is speech, Apple says the First Amendment also means the government can't tell Apple what to say.”

Source : "Apple's First Amendment Argument". "All Things Considered" with Laura Sydell, www.npr.org. February 26, 2016.
“What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys and that inspires Americans in every generation to lay down their lives for people they will never meet, for ideals that make life itself worth living.”

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