"Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Travel Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Want Quotes

“In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear.”
“Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.”

Source : Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Fire and Hemlock”, p.227, Penguin
“Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences.”

Source : "An In-Depth Interview With Zainab Salbi, Founder and CEO of Women for Women International". Interview with Rahim Kanani, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2011.
“Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.”
“It may never come, but I fancy than no man who has sympathy for the human race does not wish that sometime those who labor should have the whole product of their toil. Probably it will never come, but I wish that the time might come when men who work in the industries would own the industries.”
“It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that capitalism recognizes and protects.”
“Bear hunting? Come on up and we'll fix you up, you betcha. Just be sure you bring some hunting buddies with you, preferably fat ones who can't run as fast as you.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother.”

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