"Believe in your passions and act on them."

-- Zainab Salbi

#Believe Quotes #Passion Quotes #Believe In You Quotes

“Greedï‚¼has no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.”
“Perhaps the most radical thing we followers of Jesus can do in the information age is treat each other like humans-not heroes, not villains, not avatars, not statuses, not Republicans, not Democrats, not Calvinists, not Emergents-just humans. This wouldn't mean we would stop disagreeing, but I think it would mean we would disagree well.”
“Anarchy loves theatre. That's the whole point. People forget that. You have to laugh at the devil, not fight him. They'll always have more guns, they'll always have more bombs that go off with a bigger bang. No matter how revolting you become they'll always be willing to be more revolting to you. They've had so much more practice.”

Source : Melvin Burgess (2010). “Smack”, p.95, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
“A poet is a musician who can't sing.”
“For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy.”
“I'm trying to make sense of lot of things with 'Tyrannosaur.' I'm trying to make sense of people who've left now. They're not here, they can't answer for themselves any more, they're gone. And I'm trying to make peace with those ghosts.”

Source : "Paddy Considine: 'I'm trying to make sense of a lot of things'" by Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2011.
“Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.”
“It's extremely important that, as writers, we give a voice to those who don't have voices, including the other animals that we share the planet with and the places that are endangered or being lost.”

Source : Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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