"Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day."

-- Will Carleton

#Beautiful Quotes #Brother Quotes #Lying Quotes

“I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.”
“I've never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.”
“Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.”
“Worry was my mother's mechanic, her mechanism for engaging with the machinery of living. Worry was an anchor for her, a hook, something to clutch on to in the world. Worry was a box to live inside of, worry a mechanism for evading the present, for re-creating the past, for dealing with the future.”

Source : FaceBook post by Charles Yu from May 11, 2014
“I am more optimistic though, that this court will eventually conclude that the effort to eliminate arbitrariness while preserving fairness in the infliction of [death] is so plainly doomed to failure that is - and the death penalty - must be abandoned altogether. I may not live to see that day, but I have faith that eventually it will arrive.”
“To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.”

Source : Dennis Covington (2009). “Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia”, p.226, Da Capo Press
“I obviously want to give a healthy body image to my own daughter. I think having good examples, eating properly, that's all one can do - and just be really loving around her. I've tried to give her confidence in who she is. I think she's all right in the confidence department.”
“I'm practical, very data-driven and process-oriented. I'm very objective and analytical about everything. Ninety-five percent of situations on the wall are not that dangerous. Most people look at the climb and think, 'that's crazy.' But when you know the intricacies of your gear, the belay situation and the forces involved, it's pretty safe.”

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