"In the eternal lazy morning of the Pacific, days slip away into months, months into years; the seasons are reduced to the faintest nuance by the great central fact of the sunshine; one might pass a lifetime, it seems, between two yawns, lying bronzed and naked in the sand."

-- Christopher Isherwood

#Morning Quotes #Lying Quotes #Sunshine Quotes

“There's no dishonor in being forced by a superior power into slavery, but it is an eternal disgrace to voluntarily surrender one's liberty for a filthy bowl of oatmeal and promise of security by liars.”
“Most Americans would say that they disapproved of violence. But what they really mean is that they believe it should be the monopoly of the state.”
“God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved.”
“The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price.”
“I write all year, and at the end of the year I put an album out. And if sucks, it sucks, and if it's good, it's good. I just let it lay where it lays. It doesn't stop from doing another one next year.”
“All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.”
“Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor”

Source : "A Reveiw of the Political Conflict in America" by Alexander Harris, (p. 430), 1876.
“FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.”

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