"I've already had to wait so long." "How long?" Luce asked. "Not so long that I've forgotten that you're worth everything. Every sacrifice. Every pain."

-- Lauren Kate

#Pain Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Long Quotes

“There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs.”
“Former police chief of Houston once said of me: â€œFrank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate States Treasury, sign it â€˜U.R. Hookedâ€™ and cash it at any bank in town, using a Hong Kong driverâ€™s license for identification.”
“Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.”

Source : Andrzej Stasiuk (2009). “Fado”
“We had good years, with no violence, in a sense we were victims of our success.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite clearly not a phenomenon particular to the modern world-system. On the other hand, once again the technological achievements of capitalist civilization serve as much ill as good. One bomb in Hiroshima killed more people than whole wars in pre-modern times. Alexander the Great in his whole sweep of the Middle East could not compare in destructiveness to the impact of the Gulf War on Iraq and Kuwait.”
“Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?”
“To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.”
“All the information you need is available to you to have a successful career in music, if you're paying attention, and not closed off to anything. Remember, Perseverance is King.”

Source : Interview with Fred Wheeler, Indie Journal, 2002.

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