"I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me."

-- Evelyn Glennie

#Trying Quotes #Plant Quotes #Embrace Quotes

“To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good.”

Source : Samuel Parr, John Johnstone (1828). “The Works of Samuel Parr ...: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, and a Selection from His Correspondence”, p.257
“When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.”
“There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.”
“Agent Jones switched to the big screen and a grainy video of MoMo sitting at his enormous desk, a swivel-hipped Elvis clock ticking behind his bewigged head. 'Death to the capitalist pigs! Death to your cinnamon bun-smelling malls! Death to your power walking and automatic car windows and I'm With Stupid T-shirts! The Republic of ChaCha will never bend to your side-of-fries -drive -through-please-oh-would-you-like-ketchup-with-that corruption! MoMo B. ChaCha defies you and all you stand for, and one day, you will crumble into the sea and we will pick up the pieces and make them into sand art.”
“For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it”
“I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.”
“She flew into his arms. Held on tight as he swung her off her feet and hugged her so hard it hurt. She didn't care. She didn't want him to ever let go.”

Source : Cindy Gerard (2007). “To the Brink”, p.208, Macmillan
“Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of disease, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. What mischief have we done under the belief of false facts and false theories! We have assisted in multiplying diseases; we have done more; we have increased their mortality. ... I am pursuing Truth, and am indifferent whither I am led, if she is my only leader.”

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