"Have you ever heard one civilized person whose opinion you respect, at any time, anywhere, in any civilized country anywhere, say the good new days?"

-- Cleveland Amory

#Country Quotes #Past Quotes #New Day Quotes

“You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.”
“Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.”
“No man has ever appreciated the gospel until the law has first revealed him to himself. It is only against the inky blackness of the night sky that the stars begin to appear, and it is only against the dark background of sin and judgment that the gospel shines forth.”
“O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a wild animal only when he build the first wall. Men ceased to be a wild man only when we built the Green Wall, only when, by means of that wall, we isolated our perfect machine world from the irrational, ugly world of trees, birds, and animals...”
“A freshet in the autumn does not compensate for a drought in the spring.”

Source : Mary Boykin Chesnut (2011). “Mary Chesnut's Diary”, p.69, Penguin
“The reason I don't drink is that the drinking lifestyle robs me of my musical intensity and sharpness. I live a super-healthy lifestyle not because it's sensible or that I'm contrite, but because I need to keep my focus on the music I'm making. To do that, I need to be wide awake.”
“There’s a 30% chance that it’s already raining.”
“I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work. I studied how to mine a landfill and what to plant in it. It's fascinating because you learn a new field each time.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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