"The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead."

-- William Lloyd Garrison

#People Quotes #Empathy Quotes #Pedestal Quotes

“I ended up writing songs by taking stock of all the different events in my life, but all those songs were bad.”
“But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.”

Source : George Saintsbury (1913). “The English Novel”
“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”
“Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.”

Source : Interview with Matt Cotterill, higher-frequency.com. April 15, 2006.
“He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.”
“Most of us are facing big changes in our lives. But, in our more evolved moments, I think we can all agree that fear-based worries are a waste of time and only create the experiences we are trying to avoid.”
“Palestinians don't really believe in a state of Israel. They, unlike a majority of Israelis, who have come to the conclusion that they can live with a two-state solution to be determined by the parties, the majority of Palestinians are still very reluctant, and they need to be pushed to get there.”

Source : "Schumer: Obama's 'counter-productive' Israel policy 'has to stop'" by Ben Smith, www.politico.com. April 22, 2010.
“It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.”

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