"the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government."

-- Anna Quindlen

#Government Quotes #Church Quotes #Desire Quotes

“Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people.”
“The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in somebody else's.”
“I definitely did not play myself. As the writer of the script, I have traits of all the characters. I can relate to all of the characters.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The problem with reality TV is that creative writers are not involved; TV folks are, and some journalists who will only mine the surface of subjects. Hard work necessary for discovering and delineating the intimacies of the subjects they capture is mostly avoided.”

Source : Source: www.luxlotus.com
“The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.”
“The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.”
“Besides, it doesn't matter if it's real. It never does with dreams. They aren't anything anyway but lifesavers to cling to so you don't drown. Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.”

Source : Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.141, Scholastic UK
“Turkey's NATO membership is one thing that is forestalling the worst-case scenario - open conflict between Russia and Turkey - because neither Moscow nor the West wants a Russian NATO conflict to erupt.”

Source : "2 Willful Leaders Heighten Tensions Between Russia, Turkey". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. December 28, 2015.

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