"Little countries do not have this luxury of defending themselves. We have to do it before the fact, not after the fact"

-- Charles Taylor

#Country Quotes #Luxury Quotes #Littles Quotes

“The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.”

Source : "Arinze Sees Fundamentalism Posing Bar to Interfaith Relations". www.beliefnet.com. December 2001.
“Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.”
“Language is the net that holds thought trapped within a particular culture. But if one could only strike the ball with sufficient force, with perfect timing, it would perhaps break through the netting, continue on its course, never fall to earth, but go into orbit around the world.”

Source : David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.342, Penguin
“Dying to meet your girlfriends that you said you might bring. If they're the ones that tell you that you do the right thing.”
“If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.”

Source : Muriel Spark (2015). “Robinson”, p.59, Canongate Books
“it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.”
“When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.”
“All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.”

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