"And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past."

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Source : John Wyndham (2003). “The Day of the Triffids”

John Wyndham

#Past Quotes #Echoes Quotes #Unknown Future Quotes

“There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.”

Source : "Stars Spotlight Personal Triumphs Over Stuttering" by Alan Mozes, abcnews.go.com.
“I sent a lot of ladies to the hospital. If you go and look at my record, a lot of the people I knocked out never fought again, or maybe one time and that was it.”

Source : Source: www.boxinginsider.com
“I was picked on because I was timid. I had younger sisters; I couldn't turn to them for help. I didn't have an older brother.”
“But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you Iâ€™ll be in love with tomorrow.”

Source : FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from May 03, 2017
“Nothin'g sa'ys q'uality fantas'y l'ike misuse'd apos'tro'phes.”

Source : Usenet article, 2004.
“The wisdom of the Bible writers is more than human; the prophecies proclaim a Supreme Ruler who, though inhabiting all space, deigns to speak through the hearts and minds and tongues of His children.”
“When you don't take responsibility, when you blame others, circumstances, fate or chance, you give away your power. When you take and retain full responsibility - even when others are wrong or the situation is genuinely unfair - you keep your life's reins in your own hands.”
“They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again.”

Source : Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.253, Anchor

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