"Once upon a time, this moment - this last light of the evening the day before the race - was the best moment of the year for me. The anticipation of the game to come. But that was when all I had to lose was my life."

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Source : Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.333, Scholastic UK

Maggie Stiefvater

#Light Quotes #Race Quotes #Years Quotes

“Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves”
“I know you've run away - everybody gets the urge to do that some time - but sooner or later you'll want to go home.”
“If you can't forgive and forget, pick one.”
“Germany has always stood for an E.U. of the 27 countries. But in light of Britain's continued resistance to further integration steps, as we saw with the fiscal pact, there are limits to my optimism in this regard. It's quite possible that we will have to create the new institutions for the euro zone first.”
“It's our own small voice within that is our oppressor; it says we are not worthy and not powerful enough. Our limited beliefs are the real foes we need to fight and conquer.”

Source : "Talkin’ About a Revolution" by Yehuda Berg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2011.
“Because the world to-day is so constructed that no one can do what he would like to do, and he is forced, instead, to do what others wish him to do. Because the question of money always intrudesâ€”into what we do, into what we are, into what we wish to become, into our work, into our highest aspirations, even into our relations with the people we love!”

Source : Alberto Moravia (2011). “Contempt”, p.170, New York Review of Books
“Today, there is a whole generation of Christian men who are laughing at things that ought to make them weep, and not a few of them will suffer shipwreck, and some-the loss of their souls. Let the indiscriminate viewer beware.”
“The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.”

Source : John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.184

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