"A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart."

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Hal Borland

#Nature Quotes #Heart Quotes #Autumn Quotes

“The light, the sky, the water, they were all things you looked *through* during the day. At night, they were things you looked *into*. You looked *into* the stars, you looked *into* dark rollers and the surprising platinum flash of their caps.”

Source : Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.41, Random House
“This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave.”

Source : Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”
“It's correct that I'm a bad loser. Why should I lie? If I was good at losing I wouldn't be in Formula 1. I think it's more honest to act how you really feel than pretending to be the smiling boy who actually isn't in the mood to smile.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I've gotten jobs because I'm a woman, and I've lost jobs because I'm a woman. So just do the best work you can. It won't go unnoticed.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.”
“I handed the test in five minutes before the end of the day. Mrs. Baker took it calmly, then reached into her bottom drawer for an enormous red pen with a wide felt tip. "Stand here and we'll see how you've done," she said, which is sort of like a dentist handing you a mirror and saying, "Sit here and watch while I drill a hole in your tooth.”

Source : Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“You were the best thing in my life â€¦ I did love you. I do. As much as Iâ€™ve ever loved anyone, as much as I can. It feels like a lot â€“ it takes up my whole heart.”

Source : Patricia Gaffney (2000). “The Saving Graces”, Large Print Press

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