"I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one"

-- Bill Moyers

#Believe Quotes #Texas Quotes #People Quotes

“If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow.”
“I've always recognised that I have influence, whether I like it or not, and that I can use it to do something good.”
“I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night.”
“I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.”
“I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.”
“I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.”
“The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to realize the trick time is playing, and that unless you do something about it, the passage of time is nothing but the encroachment of the horrible banality of the past on the pure future. The past devours the future like a tape recorder, converting pure possibility into banality. The present is the tape head, the mouth of time. Then where is the mystery and why bother kicking through the ashes? Because there is a clue in the past.”

Source : Walker Percy (2011). “Lancelot”, p.46, Open Road Media
“Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.”

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