"There is a long time in me between knowing and telling."

-- Grace Paley

#Knowing Quotes #Long Quotes

“I will frankly confess that I was convinced that God had ordained me to do certain things for the service of my nation, things that perhaps could not be done by anyone else. In whatever I have done and whatever I do in the future, I consider myself as an agent of the will of God.”
“I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.”
“The Bible is very clear that in the last days men will be â€œlovers of themselvesâ€ (2 Tim. 3:2).”
“But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is, we feel, a decent area somewhere between boiled carrots and Beluga caviare, sour plonk and Chateau Lafitte, where we can take care of our gullets and bellies without worshipping them.”
“If you have technological progress, that will encourage more capitalist system. On the other hand, if you don't, if things are stalled, you end up with much more of a zero sum type thing, where there's no progress and basically everybody's gain is somebody else's loss.”
“Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.”
“Iâ€™m saying your name in the grocery store, Iâ€™m saying your name on the bridge at dawn. Your name like an animal covered with frost, your name like a music thatâ€™s been transposed, a suit of fur, a coat of mud, a kick in the pants, a lungful of glass, the sails in wind and the slap of waves on the hull...”
“Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.”

Source : Interview with Rob Walker, silicongenesis.stanford.edu. November 12, 2002.

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