"Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone."

--

Czeslaw Milosz

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Hurt Quotes

“One of the high spots of the decade for me was offering the bill which culminated in the tax act of 1986, which brought rates down. That was the most difficult problem to solve: how to make the tax system of the United States more fair. We tried to make it simpler, but we failed on that one.”
“Very few politicians in Washington really represent the interests of many people.”
“It seemed that I could tell the whole story pretty powerfully in those 18 months between October of '62 and the spring of '64 when they were all at their peak. And yet you could see some of the shadows of Detroit's demise coming.”

Source : "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.
“The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.”
“When these resources are degraded or polluted, then there are fewer of them for the rest of us, and then we start competing for them and eventually as we compete, there are those of us, who have the capacity, who have the ability to be the controllers, to decide who accesses them, how much they access, and eventually there is a conflict. Those who feel marginalized, those who feel excluded, eventually react in an effort to get their own justice, and we have conflict.”
“In times of temptation, of sorrow, of peace and of blessing, let us pray always, both alone and with our families.”
“March is a tomboy with tousled hair, a mischievous smile, mud on her shoes and a laugh in her voice.”
“Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.”

You may also like: