"But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as walking on the road; the perspective to say the very least, changes only with the journey; only when the road has, all abruptly and treacherously, and with an absoluteness that permits no argument, turned or dropped or risen is one able to see all that one could not have seen from any other place."

-- James A. Baldwin

#Journey Quotes #Perspective Quotes #Looks Quotes

“If I can survive, I can be somebody tomorrow.”
“It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.”

Source : Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub
“The soul's true greatness is in loving God and in humbling oneself in His presence, completely forgetting oneself and believing oneself to be nothing; because the Lord is great, but He is well-pleased only with the humble; He always opposes the proud.”
“A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.”
“In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.”
“[My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life.”
“Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.”
“I am very fit and by playing sweeper I can control the speed of the game.”

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