"It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power."

-- Major Owens

#Exercise Quotes #Danger Quotes #Legislation Quotes

“We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.”
“I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.”
“Still, I wonder if more women artists, musicians and writers aren't household names because we don't have enough faith in our own pursuits to give ourselves the time we desperately need to be transformed by a creative vision. Maybe that glass ceiling isn't really made of glass at all, but of sticky little fingers, dishes piled in the sink, and mortgages that demand two incomes.”
“Whether I'm being influenced by new music that I'm listening to, books I've read, my friends, or my faith, I'm learning all the time.”
“If you find yourself perplexed, or perhaps in a quandary, remember that human growth is perpendicular. We grow up and we grow forward, we just have to keep on growing steadily in both ways.”
“She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years ago, she had a young child's perfectly shallow receptiveness; she fitted into the world of time, it fitted into her, as thoughtlessly as sky fits its edges, or a river its banks. But as she has grown, her smile has widened with a touch of fear and her glance has taken on depth. Now she is aware of some of the losses you incur by being here--the extortionary rent you have to pay as long as you stay.”
“The United States' poetry emerged when there was a high literacy rate in the United States, even in the 19th century. People read the poetry when it was written. In Ireland, there was a poor literacy rate and people remember that poetry. That was handed on as a memorial tradition.”

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“An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.”

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