"But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't."

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Source : Hortense Calisher (1983). “Mysteries of motion”, Doubleday

Hortense Calisher

#Travel Quotes #Feet Quotes #Mankind Quotes

“Everyday I wake up I'm fulfilling my dream. Every day my manager calls I'm fulfilling my dream. I know if my manager doesn't call I'm not making money so when he does call I know I'm making money.”
“If psychoanalysis was late 19th century secular Judaismâ€™s way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, and retail is the late 20th centuryâ€™s way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, what does it mean that Iâ€™m impersonating the father of psychoanalysis in a store window to commemorate a religious holiday?”
“I loved music, but I found myself at the point where I wanted to die. I didn't care about life.”
“Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Let these be your motives to action through life, the relief of the distressed, the detection of frauds, the defeat of oppression, and diffusion of happiness.”

Source : Nathanael Greene, Richard K. Showman, Rhode Island Historical Society (2005). “The papers of General Nathanael Greene”
“Fake Is that what you are if you choose to improve the basic not perfect you?”
“I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.”
“Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.”
“There are many who criticise the United Nations. And those of us who know this institution well know that it is not immune from criticism. But those who argue against the United Nations advance no credible argument as to what should replace it. Whatever its imperfections, the United Nations represents a necessary democracy of states.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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