"It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave."

-- Washington Irving

#Departed Quotes #Warning Quotes #Lapses Quotes

“I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber.”
“You don't let a historic site rot.”
“I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.”
“I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class.”
“If you can't be smart or funny, be brief.”
“The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.”

Source : "The Exchange: Daniel Alarcón". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2009.
“On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.”
“A crowd, whether it be a dangerous mob, or an amiably joyous gathering at a picnic is not a community. It has a mind, but no institutions, no organizations, no coherent unity, no history, no traditions.”

Source : Josiah Royce, John Edwin Smith (1988). “Josiah Royce: Selected Writings”, p.272, Paulist Press

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