"It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain."

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Source : "UK Politics 'Your Family Matters Most'". The Sunday Times Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. November 15, 1998.

Francis Maude

#Rain Quotes #Gay Quotes #Homosexuality Quotes

“The word "art" means harmony for me. I never speak of mathematics and never bother with the Spirit. My only science is the choice of impressions that the light in the universe furnishes to my consciousness as an artisan which I try, by imposing an Order, and Art, an appropriate representative life, to organize...”
“I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.”

Source : Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.416, University of Missouri Press
“But it never ceases to amaze me how difficult the things that are supposed to be instinctive really are.”

Source : Rachel Joyce (2012). “The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry”, p.52, Random House
“Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.”
“Reforms are slow, but they never go backward.”
“The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.”
“In Ukraine, there has never been a consensus behind NATO membership. Even Yulia Tymoshenko was noncommittal when she was still prime minister. Georgia under President Mikhail Saakashvili pursued a rather aggressive stance, which stood in the way of its NATO membership. Given both states' unique relationships with Russia, concerns were justified that NATO membership would trigger Russia's reasonable fears of encirclement.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“If God has called you to China or any other place and you are sure in your own heart, let nothing deter you.Remember, it is God who has called you and it is the same as when He called Moses or Samuel.”

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