"I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light."

-- Christopher Hitchens

#Light Quotes #Lovely Quotes #Ends Quotes

“I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.”
“Many Christians are so spiritually frail, sickly, and lacking in spiritual vitality that they cannot stick to prayer for more than a few minutes at a time.”
“I feel really lucky to be in a band where the guys, for all the opportunities to do things that potentially would be good for them but detrimental to the group, that everybody stayed loyal to the whole.”
“In our times, significantly, the three outstanding voices against violence have been silenced by murder - Mahatma Gandhi in India, Archbishop Romero in El Salvador, and Dr. Martin Luther King, here at home.”

Source : Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins
“Winter is coming, we know what's coming with it. We can learn to live with the wildlings, or we can add them to the army of the dead.”
“I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.”
“She wasn't about to go down that road herself, which was a testament to her spiritual awakening and her commitment to sanity. It was a real blessing that she didn't follow me, because oftentimes, people go out together and one comes back and the other doesn't. Or both of them never do.”
“Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.”

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