"I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed."

-- Eugene McCarthy

#Kind Quotes #Judgment Quotes #Instruments Quotes

“I didnâ€™t tell him. He found out. Basically, he caught me coming in after the last time you and I saw each other. But he wonâ€™t give us away, Lucas. Heâ€™s even willing to help us see each other, as long as we help him with Charity.â€ â€œWhat, like, a fund-raiser or something?â€ Iâ€™d forgotten he didnâ€™t know her name. â€œThe vampire girl in Amherst.â€ â€œWaitâ€”Charity? Thatâ€™s her name? You were able to figure out who she is.â€ He smiled so proudly that all the tension of the moment instantly melted. â€œI fell in love with a genius.”
“My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”
“I look at raising funds for The Perlman Music Program as a challenge and as a way to provide opportunities for people who care about the future of classical music.”
“Those that we love never alter, unless we cease to love them ...”
“Once upon a time there was a girl who discovered that if she played a certain tune on a jade flute, she could summon up jade gnomes, a peculiar, harmless, but rather creepy looking spirit of the underground. The fact is that many of us have talents like this, but generally never discover them due to lack of opportunity, since one can go one's entire life without playing a jade flute, or discovering that one can speak the language of ground sloths, or turning fruitcake into solid tungsten by singing Sinatra tunes to it under a quarter moon.”
“I've met a lot of the astronauts, which was such an incredible experience. They're all very macho guys, like fighter pilots, but then there's a mysticism about them.”
“Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage.”
“My tribulations are so great, my life so disturbed by the plans daily invented to further the King's wicked intention, the surprises which the King gives me, with certain persons of his council, are so mortal, and my treatment is what God knows, that it is enough to shorten ten lives, much more mine.”

Source : "Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen" by Joanna Denny, Da Capo Press, (p. 175), 2006.

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