"Your chances of getting hit by lighting go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky, and say "Storms suck!!"

-- Johnny Carson

#Sky Quotes #Tree Quotes #Storm Quotes

“Conscious auto-suggestion, made with confidence, faith, and perseverance realizes itself automatically, in all matters within reason.”
“My life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see me hurrying. Much stands behind me; I stand before it like a tree; I am only one of my many mouths, and at that, the one that will be still the soonest. I am the rest between two notes, which are somehow always in discord because Deathâ€™s note wants to climb overâ€” but in the dark interval, reconciled, they stay there trembling. And the song goes on, beautiful.”
“God save Osama bin Laden â€” you will never get him.”
“That person has to be accountable for himself. I think thats what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone elses life.”
“There's nothing like real forgiveness, a deep-down forgiveness where you don't hold any grudges against people. I forgave for the things they didn't know and for the things they didn't know to do.”
“All the members of terrorist organizations, even those that portray themselves as Muslim organizations.....they are all Darwinists.”
“We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems, it does so by its own inexhaustibility, and by its ultimate refusal to be applied or used, even for moral good. This refusal, indeed, is literature's most moral act. At a time when meanings are manifold, disparate, and always changing, the rich possibility of interpretation--the happy resistance of the text to ever be fully known and mastered--is one of the most exhilarating products of human culture.”

Source : Marjorie Garber (2011). “The Use and Abuse of Literature”, p.30, Vintage
“Sometimes I think that no situation actually fits the technical definition of irony, and that the word just sort of hangs out in the linguistic ether singing a Siren song that's designed to crash the unsuspecting against the jagged rocks of pedantry.”

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