"She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time"

-- Ann Brashares

#Smile Quotes #Knees Quotes #Lava Quotes

“The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.”

Source : CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. March 11, 2008.
“Christ and the life of Christ is at this moment inspiring the literature of the world as never before, and raising it up a witness against waste and want and war. It may confess Him, as in Tolstoi's work it does, or it may deny Him, but it cannot exclude Him; and in the degree that it ignores His spirit, modern literature is artistically inferior. In other words, all good literature is now Christmas literature.”
“I will continue to speak in defense of freedom until the day I die. It's just that simple. It's not even a choice. It's a calling.”
“But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door.”
“Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.”
“There`s a good sense of fun and lack of sarcasm in the Texans, maybe a little earnestness which is kind of why I found it quite Australian.”
“And now, at last, gaiaphage and Nemesis stood facing each other. â€œWhy didnâ€™t you just . . . fade?â€ Gaia demanded plaintively. â€œYou hit me,â€ Nemesis said. It was a little boyâ€™s voice coming from Caineâ€™s mouth. â€œAnd thatâ€™s not okay.”
“All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.”

Source : John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.191

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