"My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses."

-- Wislawa Szymborska

#Loss Quotes #Choices Quotes #Rejection Quotes

“You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you down.”
“It does not matter if you vote for the left or right, you are not an elephant or donkey. You are a truthful lion who stands only for your conscience.”
“I'd once heard a spiritual "riddle" that went like this: "What's the only thingin heaven that's the same as it was on earth?"The answer: the wounds in Jesus' hands and feet.”
“Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.”
“All things but one you can restore; the heart you get returns no more.”

Source : Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller ...”, p.247
“Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.”
“Evil is a fact, not to be explained away, but to be accepted; and accepted, not to be endured, but to be conquered.”
“You should be allowed to be a modern city dweller and still care about the environment.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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