"If you are an eighteen or nineteen-year-old with little education, as is often the case, and you're put in charge of many, many people on the other end of the world, you have absolute power and you're not prepared for it."

-- Yaroslav Trofimov

#Years Quotes #People Quotes #Nineteen Quotes

“Once torched by truth...a little thing like faith is easy.”
“When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.”

Source : "Genius declared: Wilde tops the wit list" by Aidan Jones, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2007.
“If I was going to act irresponsibly, the least I could do was be responsible for it.”

Source : Danny Wallace (2010). “Yes Man”, p.323, Simon and Schuster
“I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier.”
“This goes against everything that I am, Sarai," he says and then kisses me. "No, it doesn't," I whisper and kiss him back. "It's you becoming more of who you really are.”
“At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becoming this virtuoso guitar player.”
“If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.”
“People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.”

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