#War Quotes #Long Quotes #Political Quotes
“Taken everything I've got, all I've got's this sunny afternoon.”
“What shall I compare it to, this fantastic thing I call my Mind? To a waste-paper basket, to a sieve choked with sediment, or to a barrel full of floating froth and refuse? No, what it is really most like is a spider's web, insecurely hung on leaves and twigs, quivering in every wind, and sprinkled with dewdrops and dead flies. And at its centre, pondering forever the Problem of Existence, sits motionless the spider-like and uncanny Soul.”
“I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.”
“I did a lot of bad stuff from the age of 18 to 21. Those are days when everyone is usually in college doing a lot of stupid things. But since I was playing baseball, I was in the spotlight. I take full responsibility for doing things that I shouldn't have been doing. And I appreciate the second chance that the Twins are giving me.”
“Big government squashes the human spirit”
“As men get older, the toys get more expensive.”
“The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.”
Source : Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.68, Macmillan
“Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.”
Franz Cumont Archaeologist
Moses Finley
