"Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat."

-- Patti Smith

#World Quotes #Lines Quotes #Horizontal Lines Quotes

“I didn't want to be a sweet boy's sweet girlfriend. I wanted to be Fawn's equal, the kind of girl who stood up for herself and took care of business, who cut guys loose when it was required.”
“I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq.”

Source : "New Strategy Vindicates Ex-Army Chief Shinseki" by Thom Shanker, www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2007.
“Even in its darkness, it has this picturesque element. It's something about the human condition. It's not the water itself-it's humanity's relationship to water, because that’s almost a human need, that water be a positive force.”
“A desert is a place without expectation.”

Source : Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.313, A&C Black
“This will arguably be the third great revolution of America, if we can prove that we literally can live without having a dominant European culture.”
“Does [America] realize the meaning of every Iraqi becoming a missile that can cross to countries and cities?”
“I once played the chief part in a rather exciting business without ever once budging from London . And the joke of it was that the man who went out to look for adventure only saw a bit of the game, and I who sat in my chambers saw it all and pulled the strings. 'They also serve who only stand and wait,' you know.”
“The hunter follows things which flee from him; he leaves them when they are taken; and ever seeks for that which is beyond what he has found. [Lat., Venator sequitur fugientia; capta relinquit; Semper et inventis ulteriora petit.]”

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