"Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair, needless suffering, lost opportunities for millions upon millions of people."

-- Ban Ki-moon

#Opportunity Quotes #People Quotes #Profound Quotes

“We earn what we get - most of us - and, sweet heaven help us! we get it. God does not always pay on Saturday - but He Pays.”
“Mars is not an aesthetic God.”

Source : John Brown Gordon (1904). “Reminiscences of the Civil War”
“America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.”

Source : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 1, Dead Stars, p. 11, 1989.
“February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II.”
“Even if you know you're sleeping, you're still at the mercy of your dreams. People who are asleep can't simply decide to wake up. Nightmares don't let you off that easily. They hold you in their clutches until they decided, in their own good time, to let you go.”
“I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.”
“I don't think people should be able to swear whenever they want. I just don't want the federal government making laws about swearing. We should trust people's own instincts about what is appropriate in any given situation.”
“I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away ...”

Source : Song: I'm Like a Bird, Album: Whoa Nelly!

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