"As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble."

-- Emmylou Harris

#Sadness Quotes #Thoughtful Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get a post-bac or try writing for the first time. The notion that it's too late to do anything is comical. It's hilarious. We're graduating college. We're so young. We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.”

Source : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
“Society has put up so many boundaries, so many limitations on whatâ€™s right and wrong that itâ€™s almost impossible to get a pure thought out. Itâ€™s like a little kid, a little boy, looking at colors, and no one told him what colors are good, before somebody tells you you shouldnâ€™t like pink because thatâ€™s for girls, or youâ€™d instantly become a gay two-year-old. Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better color. Everyoneâ€™s born confident, and everythingâ€™s taken away from you”
“For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.”
“It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you.”
“A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.”
“The war of ideas is a Greek invention. It is one of the most important inventions ever made. Indeed, the possibility of fighting with with words and ideas instead of fighting with swords is the very basis of our civilization, and especially of all its legal and parliamentary institutions.”
“For every 10 good things, there's always some jerk that wants to say something bad.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.”

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