"Have you ever felt like you could cry because you know you just heard the most important thing anybody in the world could have spoke at that second?"

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Source : Kaye Gibbons (2012). “Ellen Foster”, p.115, Algonquin Books

Kaye Gibbons

#Important Quotes #World Quotes #Cry Quotes

“Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.”
“My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while.”
“The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on with your life. To be honest and true to yourself.”
“A genuine free enterprise system, without state-enforced artificial scarcities, artificial property rights or subsidies, would be like dynamite at the foundations of corporate power.”
“Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why do we think that we are separated from them? We never half knew them, nor in this world could.”
“I can't think of anything that would do more toward putting us back on the road to liberty and personal responsibility than for the average American, and for the news media, to come to the understanding that we are not a democracy, nor were we supposed to be.”
“A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.”

Source : Chris Hedges (2005). “Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America”, p.134, Simon and Schuster
“I still have the mentality of a 19-year-old mind.”

Source : "Poker Legend Doyle Brunson Tells His Story". Interview with Nolan Dalla, www.pokerschoolonline.com. May, 2003.

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