"Figures dark beneath their loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders"

-- Peter Matthiessen

#Sunset Quotes #Dark Quotes #Rivers Quotes

“Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“My life is quite physical anyway. When you are three-foot-six you kind of have to climb stuff now and again, and you find yourself in quite precarious situations just to manage in what is quite a big world.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Arlen Specter is the man who voted in favor of Bill Clinton during impeachment, voted against Robert Bork for the Supreme Court, voted against school choice for the District of Columbia, endorses an absolutist interpretation of abortion rights. He is bright and he is tough and he belongs elsewhere.”
“If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life.”

Source : "Larry King Live" Interview, August 20, 2004.
“Presently we're seeing these kinds of battles for our most vulnerable students - such as Trans and LGBTQ students. You have a lot of conservative parents/school boards making life much harder for these children by trying to ensure bullying remains in place.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.”

Source : James Mill (1829). “Essays on Government, Jurisprudence, Liberty of the Press, and Law of Nations. Written for the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica”
“Sven must have neglected to pay tribute to one of those strict Nordic gods. But instead of cursing Eriksson himself, Thor has done a still crueller thing and cursed the England strikers. I can only assume that Eriksson was never informed of this curse, otherwise he might have more than a 17-year-old up his sleeve.”
“It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!”

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