"it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end."

-- Winifred Holtby

#Ends Quotes #Brevity Quotes #Values Quotes

“We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both are rooted in our past -- in the traditional society which produced us.”
“Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive.”
“God does give us the history of his people.”
“I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history.”
“There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.”
“I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.”
“I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years between World War I and World War II.”

Source : "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 56), 1985.
“The last thing I want to do... is offend people and ostracize myself.”

Source : "Rocker: 'My words got ahead of my head'". cnn.com. January 13, 2000.

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