"Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality."

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Wallace Stegner

#Reality Quotes #Facts Quotes #Possibility Quotes

“When I first started to take photographs in Czechoslovakia, I met this old gentleman, this old photographer, who told me a few practical things. One of the things he said was, "Josef, a photographer works on the subject, but the subject works on the photographer."”
“I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.”
“When you have big dreams, youâ€™re going to have big challenges. If you were an average person you would have average problems.”
“Innumerable Buddhas Enlightened... innumerable Christs crucified... always the same Christ, the same Buddha!”
“Finally, a good prosecutor knows that her job is to enforce the law without fear or favor. Likewise, a Supreme Court Justice must interpret the laws without fear or favor.”

Source : "Sonia Sotomayor Faces Senate For Her Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. July 13, 2009.
“He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.”
“We have a friend and protector, from whom, if we do not ourselves depart from Him, nor power nor spirit can separate us. In His strength let us proceed on our journey, through the storms, and troubles, and dangers of the world. However they may rage and swell, though the mountains shake at the tempests, our rock will not be moved: we have one friend who will never forsake us; one refuge, where we may rest in peace and stand in our lot at the end of the days. That same is He who liveth, and was dead; who is alive forevermore; and hath the keys of hell and of death.”
“Attachment leads to suffering.”

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