"I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future."

-- Van Jones

#Fighting Quotes #Past Quotes #Hands Quotes

“The greatest thing we can possibly gain from this life is the ability to love, and to love greatly.”
“I used to be a window cleaner. I got fired because I sometimes liked to drink the soapy water.”
“Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.”
“The American people have now spoken, but it's going to take a little while to determine what they've said.”
“If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.”
“Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself, the value he attributes to his own being?.”
“I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I know. You pull one book from the shelf, which carries a hint or a reference that sends you posthaste to another book, and that to successive others. It is incredible, the number of books you hopefully open and disappointedly close, only to take down another with the same result.”
“The sun shines upon good and bad alike.”

Source : Hans Christian Andersen (1993). “Andersen's Fairy Tales”, p.70, Wordsworth Editions

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