"Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language."

-- Joseph Brodsky

#World Quotes #Yardsticks Quotes #Language Quotes

“The future is in our hands. We are not hapless bystanders. We can influence whether we have a planet of peace, social justice, equity, and growth or a planet of unbridgeable differences between peoples, wasted resources, corruption, and terror.”
“Of all the unexpected qualities of an unexpected universe, the sheer organizing power of animal and plant metabolism is one of the most remarkable. . . . Where it reaches its highest development, in the human mind, we forget it completely. . . . So important does nature regard this unseen combustion . . . that a starving man's brain will be protected to the last while his body is steadily consumed.”
“I hate weekends because there is no stock market”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.”
“The fight for the future of Texas is just beginning”

Source : "Texas Senate Approves Strict Abortion Measure" by John Schwartz, www.nytimes.com. July 13, 2013.
“John Floridis was very inspiring. He plays so well.”
“There are some things that you can fulfil with money, but at the end of the day these are not the things that make you happy. It is the small things that make life good.”
“I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!”

Source : Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

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