"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?"

-- Langston Hughes

#Dream Quotes #Running Quotes #Sweet Quotes

“Gordon Lightfoot looms pretty large in my life as a writer and an artist in general. I never travel anywhere without at least two of his records with me.”
“Hurricane seasons with four or more super-hurricanes, those with sustained wind speeds of 131 mph or more will soon become the norm.”
“Gratitude is the attitude that sets the altitude for living.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 25, 2017
“I could see the works just living in reproductions. The work lives on like fantasy. Some live even better as just an image.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“A consciousness of our powerlessness should cast us upon Him who has all power. Here then is where a vision and view of God's sovereignty helps, for it reveals His sufficiency and shows us our insufficiency.”
“Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.”

Source : Samuel Rogers (1843). “Poems”, p.94
“The danger with mentioning names is that you hurt the feelings of people that you leave out.”
“Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the officer in command of the capturing force do cause him to be immediately executed by hanging.”

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