"Should haves lead to death"

-- Maria V. Snyder

“The human drama is reaching its denouement. The great unveiling is approaching, a time when the power structures of the world begin to crumble and people of the heart sing out a new truth. Many voices are joining the chorus, many feet are walking the path, many minds are dreaming possibilities for a magnificent future. For beneath the crises that are looming at every level of civilization, the global heart is awakening, beating out the rhythm of a new and glorious dance, calling us to a better way of living.”
“Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.”
“Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.”

Source : "The Brit dishing the dirt on America" by Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2008.
“I built private sector jobs all my life.”
“For how smart we think we are, how facile with words, we don't have a word for this feeling, the feeling of being blessed by belonging. If the universe is an unfolding bud, then I am a part of its creative surge, along with the flowing of water and the growing of pines. I can find a kind of camaraderie in this universe, once I recover from the astonishment of it. Or maybe not camaraderie exactly. What is the opposite of loneliness?”
“We've backed off in good faith to try and give you a chance to straighten this problem out. But I am going to beg with you for a minute. I'm going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years.”

Source : "19 Unforgettable Quotes From Retiring General James 'Mad Dog' Mattis" by Geoffrey Ingersoll and Paul Szoldra, www.businessinsider.com. January 23, 2013.
“I'm just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.”

Source : Song: I've Got My Faults, Album: Too Dumb for New York City, Too Ugly for L.A.
“We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government.”

Source : The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.

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