"Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance."

-- Richard Leakey

#Distance Quotes #Military Quotes #Police Quotes

“It's been the most astonishing year because I've been having a marvelous adventure, and yet I kind of sympathize with people who have to live in exile, because I've so missed England.”
“My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called 'spirit resonance' in melody and sound.”

Source : "Alan Hovhaness Biographical Summary" by Marco Shirodkar, www.hovhaness.com.
“I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.”
“I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.”
“Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.”
“Time at length becomes justice.”

Source : Cynthia Ozick (1983). “Art & ardor: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf
“I am just like any other girl, a sucker for romance.”
“Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”

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