"In the end countries, like people, are alone, and the real things that must be done have to be done without help."

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Source : Nayantara Sahgal (1963). “From fear set free”

Nayantara Sahgal

#Country Quotes #Real Quotes #People Quotes

“What we do with little kids today will matter in 20 years. If you don't get it right, you will have an unlivable environment. That's the crisis I see.”

Source : Source: www.wbur.org
“Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget.”
“The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.”
“Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.”

Source : "The Power of Two: Bonus Outtakes From WD Interview With Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston". Interview with Brian A. Klems, www.writersdigest.com. January 12, 2012.
“If the workers don't keep themselves current - with some assistance and guidance from their employers - then the workers who are in the legacy roles will have to be removed. That's what's so difficult.”
“The thing that's fun about the 'Housewives' is talking to your friends about it.”
“After my husband died, I felt like one of those spiraled shells washed upon the beach... Poke a straw through the twisting tunnel, around and around, and there is nothing there. No flesh. No life. Whatever lived there is dried up and gone.”

Source : Lynn Caine (1974). “Widow”
“Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.”

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