"I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them, kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself."

-- Richard Wright

#Knowing Quotes #Awful Quotes #Another Chance Quotes

“Bryon tilted his head to a very odd angle, half-closed his eyes and composed his features to suggest that he was about to expire from chronic indigestion.”
“Greed-for lack of a better word-is good. Greed is right. Greed works.”
“The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.”

Source : Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1928). “Reconciliation: a plain statement of the gracious provision Jehovah has made to bring all men into full harmony with Himself that the obedient ones may have everlasting life on earth in contentment and complete happiness”
“I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the pastÂ—a combination of both.”
“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.”

Source : The Little Minister (1891) vol. 1, ch. 1
“I think part of the fun of being an actor is getting to work with different directors and seeing their take on it, what they're passionate about. They all have different ideas about your character.”
“To be a real man is to be unattached - not from responsibility or justice - but from those dependencies that inhibit responsibility and justice.”
“Money does not make you happy, but the lack of money can cause unhappiness.”

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