Quotes
Authors
Graham Swift

"Thereâ€™s this thing called progress. But it doesnâ€™t progress. It doesnâ€™t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away. Itâ€™s progress if you can stop the world slipping away. My humble model for progress I the reclamation of land. Which is repeatedly, never-ending retrieving what it lost. A dogged and vigilant business. A dull yet valuable business. A hard, inglorious business. But you shouldnâ€™t go mistaking the reclamation of land for the building of empires."

-- Graham Swift

#Humble Quotes #Land Quotes #Progress Quotes

“There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.”
“I pride myself on how little space I take up. I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry fall leaf, complete with a translucent spine and brittle veins, blowing away in a stiff wind, up, up, up into a crisp blue sky,”

Source : Julie Gregory (2003). “Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood”, Bantam
“If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.”
“Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity. At the same time, we expect our committed relationships to be romantic as well as emotionally and sexually fulfilling. Is it any wonder that so many relationships crumble under the weight of it all?”

Source : "How Jupiter in Libra Might Mess Up Marriage for Good" by The Astrotwins, www.elle.com. September 27, 2016.
“Yes, absolutely because we think there is a way to do this through earned legalization without rewarding people who have come in with undocumented status, illegally. We don't want to give them an advantage over those who came here legally and we think that there's a way to do this while still respecting the rule of law. It's clear that what the President is talking about does not do that...”
“No it's not!" said Constable Visit. "Atheism is a denial of a god." "Therefore It Is A Religious Position," said Dorfl. "Indeed, A True Atheist Thinks Of The Gods Constantly, Albeit In Terms of Denial. Therefore, Atheism Is A Form Of Belief. If The Atheist Truly Did Not Believe, He Or She Would Not Bother To Deny.”
“Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children. They could reach me, but I wasn't always there. But, you know, that's not necessarily anything to do with being a writer. I mean, a taxi driver could have the same problem... Maybe.”
“They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.”

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