"Oh, I have walked in Kansas Through many a harvest field, And piled the sheaves of glory there And down the wild rows reeled: Each sheaf a little yellow sun, A heap of hot-rayed gold; Each binder like Creation's hand To mold suns, as of old."

-- Vachel Lindsay

#Hands Quotes #Yellow Quotes #Kansas Quotes

“I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers.”
“If you know how much reality is getting in, then you know a great deal about what a person sees to be true.”

Source : David J. Lieberman (2007). “You Can Read Anyone: Never be Fooled, Lied To, Or Taken Advantage of Again”, p.109, David Lieberman
“Frequently what we say is rest is merely laziness. Our body requires respite and so does our mind and spirit. But a person should never rest because of a laziness which arises from the evil nature in his emotion. How often laziness and emotional distaste for work join to employ physical fatigue as a cover-up.”
“It was the same thing in the army, no respect. They gave me a uniform that glowed in the dark.”
“The worst violence we can do to each other often is psychological, especially in families. I dwell a lot on domestic danger. Thats the backdrop of most of my novels - what kind of damage is done without ever lifting a finger.”
“We were not placed on this earth to walk alone.”
“It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.”
“Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.”

Source : Eric J. Hobsbawm (1994). “Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991”

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