"If we spend all our time gazing at the wonders ahead without remembering where we're standing right now, we're going to trip and fall flat on our face, over and over agaain."

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Source : Greg Egan (2010). “Zendegi”, p.16, Hachette UK

Greg Egan

#Fall Quotes #Gazing Quotes #Faces Quotes

“There is no ceasefire. There will not be any ceasefire.”

Source : "There is no ceasefire. There will not be any ceasefire" by Ewen MacAskill, Simon Tisdall, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2006.
“I'm continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you're uncomfortable, it means you're growing.”
“My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.”
“Those who believe that if someone who would want to radically change the foreign policy of a country such as the United States, which is very difficult, and often although some of us in here who may fear that this may happen, what we should be doing is build bridges, not walls.”

Source : Source: time.com
“A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.”
“There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that one sometimes needs help with moving the piano.”
“Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of foreign models; and it is therefore the sort of composition in which they have never been excelled.”
“God's purposes and plans will not fail. Before you spend all your prayer time telling Him about yours, ask about His.”

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