"You are responsible for the world that you live in."

-- August Wilson

#World Quotes #Responsible Quotes

“In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.”

Source : "Le Monologue du Peintre". Book by George Charbonnier, 1959.
“A long time ago, in a town with which I used to be familiarly acquainted, there dwelt an elderly person of grim aspect, known by the name and title of Doctor Grimshawe, whose household consisted of a remarkably pretty and vivacious boy, and a perfect rosebud of a girl, two or three years younger than he, and an old maid of all work, of strangely mixed breed, crusty in temper and wonderfully sluttish in attire.”
“Up in this air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.”
“Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.”
“I think that it’s premature to call Libya a democracy because political order is still so fragile there and the command by the state over the means of violence is still so inadequate that I think state building remains a major challenge. And until the militias can be reined in and the authority of the democratically-elected state can really be firmly established, there’s still tremendous fragility and vulnerability in the unfolding story in Libya.”
“To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.”
“The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.”
“I don't see anybody, in any conference, that can shut me down. Any conference, anywhere in the world.”

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