"Maybe weâ€™ll live to see sharks recover. Right now, that seems as improbable as seeing all these falcons. Hope is the ability to see how things could be better. The world of human affairs has long been a shadowy place, but always backlit by the light of hope. Each person can add hope to the world. A resigned person subtracts hope. The more people strive, the more change becomes likely."

-- Carl Safina

#Light Quotes #Sharks Quotes #Long Quotes

“You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.”

Source : Kenneth Rexroth (1969). “An autobiographical novel”
“Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either - though that's probably because he actually has nuclear weapons, as opposed to Iran which might or might not be trying to acquire them and thus remains on the Israeli-American target list.”
“It doesnâ€™t honor God to pretend everything is OK. Thatâ€™s the beauty of Jesus that so many people miss. The beauty is that he died on the cross for our sins, but also that he existed the way we exist.”
“I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.”
“The biggest difference in what's going on in New Zealand versus the rest of the world, aside from the decriminalization of sex work, is that sex workers were actually part of the decriminalization process. There was a provision in that legal change stating sex workers would be part of an evaluation committee, and in 2008, they were, they were a part of the committee determining whether or not decriminalization worked. They are continually regarded as stakeholders - in their communities, but also in the legal process. That's such a different way of operating.”
“Listen, here's what I'd like to do: I'd like to live in a trailer and play records all night.”

Source : Charles Portis (1999). “Norwood”, p.77, The Overlook Press
“Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.”
“All the things you treasure most will be the hardest won I will watch you struggle long before the answers come But I won't make it harder, I'll be there to cheer you on I'll shine the light that guides you down the road you're walking on”

Source : Song: The One Who Knows, Album: The Beauty of the Rain

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