"And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach."

-- Paul Fussell

#Travel Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Teach Quotes

“...for the contingent out there who sneer at heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman and Captain America, those icons who still, at their core, represent selfless sacrifice for the greater good, and who justify their contempt by saying, oh, it's so unrealistic, no one would ever be so noble... grow up. Seriously. Cynicism is not maturity, do not mistake the one for the other. If you truly cannot accept a story where someone does the right thing because it's the right thing to do, that says far more about who you are than these characters.”
“If you would like to leave footprints in the sands of time, you had better wear work shoes.”
“I give everybody the benefit of the doubt. Anything you get into, you should research it and figure its roots and try to really be a real strong part of it.”
“"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it."”
“I think lingerie plays a big part in how you carry yourself.”
“Good will, that curious product of consciousness, of leisure and energy to spare and share. That thing we put out against the forces of interest. That extra thing. Religions and nations and political parties have taken it and used it as coinage, have said you must only give it in exchange for value.”

Source : Naomi Mitchison (1990). “A Girl Must Live: Stories and Poems”
“Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power”
“It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.”

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