"America was in full swing now, all the papers said so, and people were rushing forward, leaving behind the horrors of war. She understood the reasons, but they were rushing, like Lon, toward long hours and profits, neglecting the things that brought beauty to the world."

-- Nicholas Sparks

#War Quotes #Swings Quotes #Rushing Quotes

“Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like Ebony and Jet magazines.”
“Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up wrongs of centuries; but they languish at times, while the love of self works on ceaselessly, unwearyingly,burrowing always at the very root of life, and heaping up fresh wrongs for other centuries to sweep away.”

Source : Charles W. Chesnutt (2008). “The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt”, p.382, Penguin
“I make a lot of jokes about vegetarians in my act but most of them don't have the strength to protest.”
“All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.”
“It is therefore necessary to prepare the imminent and inevitable identification of man with the motor, facilitating and perfecting an incessant exchange of intuition, rhythm, instinct and metallic discipline, quite utterly unknown to the majority of humanity and only divined by the most lucid mind.”

Source : "International Futurism in Arts and Literature" by Günter Berghaus, (p. 318), 2000.
“I am so not technically proficient at all.”
“Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.”
“I've never thought that I would see any man of color, not just a black president, but any man of color, I never thought that I would live to see that. I thought maybe my grandchildren would, but I never thought I would. So when Barack Obama first started to run I was like, "I've never heard of this guy - he probably doesn't have a shot." But then he started picking up steam and that piqued my interest.”

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