"The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance; and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart."

-- Abraham Lincoln

#Running Quotes #Uprising Quotes #People Quotes

“Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.”
“Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.”
“Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.”
“In American Romances, her new book of essays, Rebecca Brown has a voice that is full of pop references, family stories, and the fruits of a lifetime of -- in her perfect phrase - extreme reading. The voice is a hoot, and it is dead serious. This is writing with exquisite control, fully up to the task Brown takes on of playing a fierce game of beach ball with deep problems of American (and personal) history and identity.”
“Oh I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused. But since their wings have got rusted, you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.”

Source : Song: (the Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes, Album: My Aim Is True
“I would love to meet Kelly Clarkson and if I get the chance to I would tell her thank you so much for the inspiration.”
“Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.”
“Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.”

Source : Amy Lowell (1971). “Poetry and Poets: Essays”, p.3, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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