"The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there."

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Tahir Shah

#Waiting Quotes #Village Quotes #Dangerous Quotes

“A number of studies of homeless youth in big cities put forth a startling statistic: Depending on the study, somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of homeless youths identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.”
“The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often to Jewish money to finance candidates.”
“Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.”

Source : William Henry Hudson (2010). “Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest”, p.111, The Floating Press
“Get on in life because life will get on without you if you don't keep up.”
“I spend as much time as I can sketching from nature, Dartmoor contains such a rich variety of landscape, as many boulders, foaming rivers and twisted trees as my heart could ever desire. . . . When I look into a river, I feel I could spend a whole lifetime just painting that river.”
“Words are like harpoons. Once they go in, they are very hard to pull out.”
“The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.”

Source : "STYLE; An Eye for The Ladies". Interview with Lisa Eisner and Roman Alonso, www.nytimes.com. March 30, 2003.
“If you have kids and stuff what kind of dad do I wanna be for my kids, and what kind of mom do I want them to have”

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