"I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by."

-- Fernando Pessoa

#Journey Quotes #Silence Quotes #World Quotes

“We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred to global warming as a "slowmotion catastrophe" one we expected to kick in perhaps generations later. Instead, the signs of change have accelerated alarmingly.”
“People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile.”
“It so often happens that somebody says 'change your life' and you repaint your car rather than re-wire the engine.”
“Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.”

Source : Jennifer Armintrout (2008). “Blood Ties Bundle: Blood Ties Book One: The Turning\Blood Ties Book Two: Possession\Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes\Blood Ties Book Four: All Souls' Night”, p.379, MIRA
“Even Doctors Without Borders in West Africa are moving the fatality rate from 50 percent down to 30 percent-I bet we can do substantially better than that here.”
“This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.”
“Long-term investment success is almost totally a function of how one emotionally handles declines in the equity market, as opposed to how one's portfolio handles them.”
“You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.”

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