"I think the important thing to remember here is that we haven't been attacked again at home since September of 2001."

-- Mitch McConnell

#Home Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Important Quotes

“That the past is ahead, in front of us, is a conception of time that helps us retain our memories and to be aware of its presents. What is behind us [the future] cannot be seen and is liable to be forgotten readily. What is ahead of us [the past] cannot be forgotten so readily or ignored, for it is in front of our minds' eyes, always reminding us of its presence. The past is alive in us, so in more than a metaphorical sense the dead are alive - we are our history.”
“Sometimes I photograph without looking through the viewfinder. I have mastered that well enough, it is almost as if I were looking through it.”
“I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.”
“I am ready to defend my convictions even unto death. I have followed the Sacred Scriptures and the holy doctors.”
“You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, â€œWhat if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go and I drift into space?â€ Does that ever make you anxious?”
“The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special commission to study the problem seriously.”
“The Lord always grants more than what he has been asked: you ask him to remember you, and he brings you into his Kingdom!”
“It is less painful, it turns out, to feel betrayed than to feel forgotten.”

Source : Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.83, W. W. Norton & Company

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