"They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon."

-- Augustus William Hare

#Men Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Noon Quotes

“NO ONE is immune to the trials and tribulations of life.”

Source : "Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat". Documentary, Biography, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2002.
“Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.”

Source : Kate Atkinson (2013). “Life After Life”, p.412, Random House
“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.”
“Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.”
“There is really a je ne sais quoi about turkey cooking - the air of festivity, the family squabbles, the constant basting - that does not apply to the turkey breast, which is, really, a convenience of food... A turkey without seasonal angst is like a baseball game without a national anthem, a winter without snow, a birthday party without candles.”
“We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.”

Source : Hugo Claus (2009). “Wonder”
“North Korea has certainly, in the past, used detainees to initiate diplomatic exchanges with the United States.”

Source : "North Korea Claims It Has U.S. Student In Custody". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. January 22, 2016.
“Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements of plutocracy, oligarchy, and mounting theocracy that rule our state? How do we address the self-inflicted catastrophes that devastated our natural environment? So large is our malaise that no single writer can encompass it. We have no Emerson or Whitman among us. An institutionalized counterculture condemns individuality as archaic and depreciates intellectual values, even in the universities. (The Anatomy of Influence)”

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