"All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will."

-- Novalis

#Events Quotes #Materials Quotes

“Telling me that I’m obsessed with talking about racism in America is like telling me I’m obsessed with swimming when I’m drowning.”

Source : "Hari Kondabolu on Why You Can't Be 'Obsessed With Race' in America" by Jamilah King, www.colorlines.com. February 6, 2014.
“I don't understand how people can stand next to you one year,and next year, they cannot. They're going crazy, screaming. They can't take it that you're there. But last year I was in the same club,walking around,lonely like a motherfucker. Couldn't get a date or a dance. I was too skinny, too something, and now, "He's just adorable. He's just, oh!”
“A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand the same kind of explanation in his own right.”
“I know who the Versace woman is because I wear the clothes myself.”
“I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.”
“George Herbert Walker Bush. He was a pretty-pretty great President and anything but.”
“They say God never gives us more than we can handle, but sometimes I think God has overestimated what I can take.”

Source : Blaize Clement (2007). “Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter: The First Dixie Hemingway Mystery”, p.218, Macmillan
“To create such people, such People's Representatives in Indonesia, would take decades, and they can only grow up in a fundamentally different political system, and in a totally new culture. What is now governing Indonesia is morally defunct, it is corrupt. What is ruling the country now is not even a culture or a political system: it is a disease.”

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