"When I first started out, I thought it was enough to make an angry song that pointed out the problems of the world."

-- Michael Franti

#Song Quotes #World Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I think one country with nuclear weapons is one country too many.”

Source : "Mohamed ElBaradei: What I've Learned" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. January 31, 2011.
“I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.”
“Justice is what love looks like in public.”
“Take a look around, there are misfits everywhere.”
“Loneliness doesnâ€™t exist on any single plane of consciousness. Itâ€™s generally a low throb, barely audible, like the hum of a Mercedes engine in park, but every so often the demands of the highway call for a burst of acceleration, and the hum becomes a thunderous, elemental roar, and once again youâ€™re reminded of what this babyâ€™s carrying under the hood.”
“My friends, there are no friends.”
“One of the jobs of art is to inspire discussion, and Brokeback Mountain certainly has done that. It's like a window and a mirror. You're looking through a window at lives you may or may not have experienced. But it's a mirror in the sense we've all felt lonely. we're all, at one time or another, looking for and hoping for love.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that he delighteth in us for asking. Do not your inclinations tell you that the WORLD is yours? Do you not covet all? Do you not long to have it; to enjoy it; to overcome it? To what end do men gather riches, but to multiply more? Do they not like Pyrrhus the King of Epire, add house to house and lands to lands, that they may get it all?”

Source : Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

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