"Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author."

-- William Wordsworth

#Feelings Quotes #Doe Quotes

“My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.”
“I am actually as good as everybody else pretends to be. It's scary.”
“Ah, but you, Darkness, you know all this. I tell you night after night. Nothing will shock you. Maybe I go on at you in the hope that there's something beyond you. Some nights I sit here and talk and sob and stare out into the blackness thinking that if I look hard enough I'll see the light behind. But I stay out until the break of day, waiting, hoping, and there's only sunrise again.”

Source : Tim Winton (2011). “In the Winter Dark”, p.108, Pan Macmillan
“These data suggest very strongly that participating in the playing of violent video games by children and youth increase aggressive thought and behavior; increase antisocial behavior and delinquency; engender poor school performance; desensitize the game player to violence.”
“And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.”
“I think the public is very reluctant to get involved in more foreign wars, especially in the Middle East. And they understand, implicitly, that we go to war in the Middle East because of oil. And if we don't want to go to war in the Middle East, then we have to do something about the oil problem. And I think that view is gaining ground in the U.S.”

Source : "The Permanent Energy Crisis". Interview with Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2006.
“Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.”
“Today I felt like a part of something awesome, the human race. I know it can be ugly; it really is in so many ways. But today there was nothing ugly to see, just people trying to be better. And maybe that's the key. Not resolutions and forgotten promises, but instead a commitment to do this year a little better than the last. I'm feeling good about this one. I really am.”

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