"Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt."

-- Shel Silverstein

#Reading Quotes #Journey Quotes #Years Quotes

“Tis said, fantastic ocean doth enfold The likeness of whate'er on land is seen.”
“There's also just socially, personally. There is something naughty about pot. There is something that is rebellious and outlawish and a kind of, you know, a finger in the eye of the government saying, hey, you can't tell me what to do. That would be gone if legalize it.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“The first step towards attaining a higher standard of holiness is to realize more fully the amazing sinfulness of sin.”
“Let us use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems without relying on prayers and wishful thinking. When we have faith in ourselves, we will find we do not have to have faith in gods.”
“Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.”

Source : Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.96, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.”
“To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.”

Source : Cordell Hull's Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1945.
“In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.”

Source : "Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America". Book by Rick Perlstein, 2010.

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