"There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies."

-- Robert Breault

#Philosophical Quotes #Optimistic Quotes #Axes Quotes

“Ideally you want to be a couple of months ahead on a project. But I rarely am.”
“Give us power, give us light To holdall love within our breast's small space.”
“Calm on the listening ear of night Come Heaven's melodious strains, Where wild Judea stretches far Her silver-mantled plains.”

Source : Edmund Hamilton Sears (1885). “That Glorious Song of Old”
“I was thinking as I bent over to receive my injection, next time I'm gonna use protection.”
“With the arrival of the new comes the need to overcome fascination with novelty in order to approach substance and sophistication - a sophistication born of subtlety and depth of perception, not complexity and perceived virtuosity.”
“It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.”
“There are those, however, that are not frightened of grief: dropping deep into the sorrow, they find therein a necessary elixir to the numbness. When they encounter one another, when they press their foreheads against the bark of a centuries-old tree...their eyes well with tears that fall easily to the ground. The soil needs this water. Grief is but a gate, and our tears a kind of key opening a place of wonder thats been locked away. Suddenly we notice a sustaining resonance between the drumming heart within our chest and the pulse rising from the ground”
“Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.”

Source : "Interview with "Subway Vigilante" Bernhard Goetz". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 17, 2004.

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