"I could have grabbed his shirt collar. I could have pulled him close to me, so close he could feel my breath on his skin, and I could have said to him, "This is just a crisis. A flash! A single match struck against the implacable darkness of time! You are the one who taught me to never give up. You taught me that new possibilities emerge for those who are prepared, for those who are ready. You have to believe!"

-- Garth Stein

#Giving Up Quotes #Believe Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“I love the U.K. It's so different over there from America, you know, the culture and stuff. It's pretty awesome.”
“There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is connected with human civilization.”

Source : George Fownes (1845). “Elementary Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical”, p.224
“The eyes sparked a lot of things for me, it could be somebody remembering something they had witnessed or heard about, or it could be the person in the photograph that was experiencing a tragedy or it could also be the spectator looking on from a safe distance.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.”
“Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair”
“Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.”
“Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.”

Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.90, Rowman & Littlefield
“All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps.”

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