"We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens."

-- Terry Tempest Williams

#Stories Quotes #Coats Quotes

“Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work.”
“Whoever is holding the belt right now is the one I want to fight. I want to get that belt again. It's mine.”
“It was going to be so much fun dragging his complacent sexual views out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary.”

Source : Keri Arthur (2006). “Full Moon Rising: A Riley Jenson Guardian Novel”, p.156, Bantam
“And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who can be said to be spoiled either by his successes or by the generous congratulations of his comrades. If he were capable of being spoiled he would not have had the character to have won continuous victories, for the smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Self-distrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.”
“I don't care about skin the color, everybody is a human being. Beneath every skin color, you bleed red. That's just the bottom line of the truth.”
“My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.”
“Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds.”
“If you read Animal Farm, you know that humans traditionally forget the reason we have revolutions in the first place.”

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