"The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual human being acquires a true and universally recognised value."

-- Peter Robinson

#Age Quotes #Extravagance Quotes #Levels Quotes

“No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or that you are not obliged to wander in the dark, or that everything will be proved to you and neatly verified like something in science. Nothing is: at least nothing that is worthwhile.”
“All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.”

Source : 'England's Helicon' (1600) 'The Unknown Shepherd's Complaint' (renying ?reneging)
“I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.”
“Your life, your soul, your world. They cannot kill it. Look at me, Iâ€™ve died but I opened my eyes again.”
“I think it's always important to constantly keep the band on their toes and try new things that you hope will work. That's how 'Apologize' was born, and maybe down the line another little song will be born by that mentality. I've always really liked that song.”
“Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.”
“Rowing is an absurdly simple sport. I can easily guide a beginner throught the right technical motions. The difficulty arises when the beginner attempts to repeat those motions on a bumpy race course, at 40 strokes a minute, with his heart rate zooming, and an opponent charging up his stern.”
“The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.”

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