"Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet."

-- Bryan Stevenson

#People Quotes #Sitting Quotes #Quiet Quotes

“In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be a little off-kilter.”
“The Earth needs rebels!”
“All your life spent getting ready for the next thing. I climbed a lot of hills now. I crossed a lot of rivers. Crossed the sea even, left everything I knew and came to Styria. But there I was, waiting for me at the docks when I got off the boat, same man, same life. Next valley ain't no different from this one. No better anyway. Reckon I've learned ... just to stick in the place I'm at. Just to be the man I am.”
“If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.”
“When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors.”

Source : "Online Extra: At Costco, "Good Jobs and Good Wages"". Interview with Michelle Conlin, www.bloomberg.com. May 31, 2004.
“Some would never think of talking to friends the way they do to their own children. We should speak with the same words of kindness to our children, as we would when speaking to our best friends.”
“I opened my veins. Unstoppably life spurts out with no remedy. Now I set out bowls and plates. Every bowl will be shallow. Every plate will be small. And overflowing their rims, into the black earth, to nourish the rushes unstoppably without cure, gushes poetry ...”

Source : Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.142, Carcanet
“If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.”

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