"I think the only way that political system can be corrected is for the American people to see very vividly that it needs repair. If things are going to worse in the future, the American people, in every congressional district in the land, might demand that reforms take place in the political system."

-- Jimmy Carter

#Thinking Quotes #Land Quotes #People Quotes

“People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.”
“I thought the line 'I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska' was very funny. I think the word is 'sarcasm.' In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life.”

Source : "'Family Guy' actress with Down Syndrome, Andrea Fay Friedman, fires back at Sarah Palin" by Nail Nagraj, www.nydailynews.com. February 19, 2010.
“You canâ€™t make yourself closer to God by hating someone else, whether you believe itâ€™s righteous anger or not. The relationship between Soulâ€”which is youâ€”and God is one of love. And where thereâ€™s pure love, there is no room for anger of any kind.”
“The sleek, expensive girls I teach, Younger and pinker every year, Bloom gradually out of reach.”

Source : W. D. Snodgrass, “April Inventory”
“One way to tell if you're really comfortable with a person is if you can be quiet together sometimes and not feel awkward. If you don't feel obligated to say something brilliant or funny or surprising or cool. You can just be together. You can just be.”

Source : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2010). “It's Not Like I Planned It This Way: Including Alice; Alice on Her Way; Alice in the Know”, p.312, Simon and Schuster
“When life kicks you in the teeth and knocks you down to the ground. Are you able to stand up and keep fighting?! Thatâ€™s what itâ€™s all about.”
“The casual listener won't be around forever.”
“Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human heart which is always craving for perpetuity.”

Source : Stacy Aumonier (1920). “One After Another”

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