"Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life."

-- Anatole France

#Change Quotes #Regret Quotes #Life Changing Quotes

“Ontological questions are generally beside the point, hardly more than a form of harassment.”
“When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as twenty thousand feet below the seafloor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.”

Source : "Basin and Range". Book by John McPhee, 1981; reprinted in his book "Annals of the Former World", 1998.
“As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion.”
“In war and in peace, in prosperity and times of economic hardship, America has no better friend or more dependable ally than the United Kingdom.”
“I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth”
“I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.”
“This (America) is a land of rich diversity, from the towering skyscrapers of Manhatan all the way to the towering mounds of garbage piled up next to the towering skyscrapers of Manhattan.”

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