"I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth."

-- Ovid

#Happy Birthday Quotes #Dust Quotes #Years Quotes

“Gordon Lightfoot looms pretty large in my life as a writer and an artist in general. I never travel anywhere without at least two of his records with me.”
“One must be of one's time and paint what one sees.”

Source : "Edouard Manet: Symphony in off-white" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2011.
“We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it happens to every human being. I don't think we even hated the media by the time that movie was made. We were just tired.”
“There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.”
“Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police and criminal justice system are the last desperate line of defense for a civilized society. Our increased reliance on laws to regulate behavior is a measure of how uncivilized weâ€™ve become.”
“He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.”
“Delay not to seize the hour!”
“The term blowback, which officials of the Central Intelligent Agency first invented for their own internal use, . . . refers to the unintended consequences of policies that were kept secret from the American people. What the daily press reports as the malign act of terrorists or drug lords or rogue states or illegal arms merchants often turn out to be blowback from earlier American operations.”

Source : Chalmers Johnson (2001). “Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire”, p.23, Macmillan

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