"Ordinary Americans, and especially the small minority active in Democrat and Republican primaries, must learn more of what people across the globe are thinking and saying about the US. For if you follow that, you realise that the erosion of American power is happening faster than most of us predicted -- while the politicians in Washington behave like rutting stags with locked antlers."

-- Timothy Garton Ash

#Thinking Quotes #Erosion Quotes #America Quotes

“There is a part of childhood that is childish, and a part that is sacred. Suddenly we are touching the sacred part -- running to the shoreline, feeling the first cold burst of water on our ankles, reaching into the tide to catch at shells before they ebb away from our fingers. We have returned to a world that is capable of glistening, and we are wading deeper within it.”
“Can I believe in that God too?”
“I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight.”

Source : "Skylar Grey on Her New Album, Eminem's Mystique and Why She Almost Quit Music (Q&A)". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 9, 2013.
“We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.”
“From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of violence that had given them the power to challenge constituted authority. Bloodshed was not the unfortunate by product of revolution, it was the source of energy.”

Source : Simon Schama (2004). “Citizens: A Chronicle of The French Revolution”, p.728, Penguin UK
“Do not stand still disputing about your election, but set to repenting and believing. Cry to God for converting grace. Revealed things belong to you; in these busy yourself.... Whatever God's purposes may be, I am sure His promises are true. Whatever the decrees of heaven may be, I am sure if I repent and believe I shall be saved.”

Source : "A Sure Guide to Heaven".
“Only when youâ€™re willing to take 100 percent responsibility for making the relationship work will it work. Otherwise, a relationship left to chance will always be vulnerable to disaster.”
“Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.”

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