"My guitar is my torch, my soul carries the flame. Make no mistake, I'm a true blues man."

-- Big Bill Morganfield

#Mistake Quotes #Men Quotes #Flames Quotes

“A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.”
“Mr. Speaker, in seeking to return to the United Nations, the Republic of China on Taiwan will once again ask diplomatic allies to present its case before the United Nations this fall.”
“The best way to deal with the deficit is through economic growth.”
“I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one hundred men because of a decision handed down by a court comprised of nine men--on an issue that affects millions of women.... I have the feeling that if men could get pregnant, we wouldn't be struggling for this legislation. If men could get pregnant, maternity benefits would be as sacrosanct as the G.I. Bill.”
“I am a futility. The life of prayer begins with that. And God is not a comfort, to be offered like Kleenex. God is a poisoned sea, with broken syringes washing up on the beach. God is shopping malls stretching to the horizon and warplanes in the sky. God is a flat tire in a rainstorm and beer cans in the ditch, a bottle shattered on a highway and the taste of gunmetal in your mouth.”
“The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.”

Source : Julien Benda (2011). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.146, Transaction Publishers
“My parents know that I have always been sort of a dark melodramatic kid, so they were never concerned.”
“What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.”

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