"No, we don't walk away. But when we're holding on to something precious, we run. We run and run, fast as we can, and we don't stop running until we are out from under the shadow."

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Source : "Fictional character: The Doctor". "Doctor Who" ("The Rings of Akhaten"), April 06, 2013.

Neil Cross

#Running Quotes #Shadow Quotes #Holding On Quotes

“There was a time, right up until the end of the Second World War and beyond, when white people in Europe thought that they basically owned the world and that everybody else was a sort of servant, or a curiosity, or whatever. And that informed 99 percent of the photographic practice that was done. Without being able to address that, I felt I would have failed in my attempt to explain what the urge to document is.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Regardless of what kind of film, the number one rule of comedy is to never take yourself too seriously and then the next rule is you can't have any self-consciousness, otherwise it kills the laugh, and that will never change.”
“Memories have to be our most painful blessing.”
“The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.”

Source : Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.149, Bloomsbury Publishing
“To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.”

Source : Gerrit Smith (1856). “Speeches of Gerrit Smith in Congress [1853-1854].”, p.18
“So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.”
“the Saudis have never shown any respect for human rights, either now or in the past. Even a petty burglar faces having one of his hands chopped off. The liberal press in America prefers to ignore all this, although they don't hesitate to blacken the reputation of Iran.”

Source : "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 535, 1991.
“I want to be as famous as midnight. As powerful as a gun. As loved as a pizza.”

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