"Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart."

-- Richard Jackson

#Heart Quotes #Silence Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“What is your personal carrying capacity for grief, rage, despair? We are living in a period of mass extinction. The numbers stand at 200 species a day. That's 73,000 a year. This culture is oblivious to their passing, feels entitled to their every last niche, and there is no roll call on the nightly news.”

Source : Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay, Lierre Keith (2011). “Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet”, p.20, Seven Stories Press
“The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.”
“If I were to just focus on stand-up, I could actually, paradoxically enough, be home way more, because I would leave on a Friday, go do a couple theaters Friday, Saturday, maybe Sunday, come home.”
“I worked the morning biscuit line at Hardee's.”

Source : Joni Ernst's Republican Response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2015.
“Being alive is about playing to win. Being brain dead is when you play not to loose.”
“Every time I make a "Mission" movie or other films, people kind of look at me and go, "Well, now what? What's next?" I think there's always going to be another mountain. I think there's something always in store.”
“I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over unsightly statues. If these great man must have outdoor memorials, let them be in the form of handsome blocks of buildings for the poor”
“Sometimes I think if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn.”

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