"It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land of the Pashtuns, where desertification proceeds at a steady, implacable crawl even in the consciences and intellects of men."

-- Yasmina Khadra

#Men Quotes #Land Quotes #Decay Quotes

“Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you'll never pull this one off.”
“The idea that the Lord our God is not a personage of tabernacle is entirely a mistaken notion. He was once a man. Brother Kimball quoted a saying of Joseph the Prophet, that he would not worship a God who had not a Father; and I do not know that he would if be had not a mother; the one would be as absurd as the other. If he had a Father, he was made in his likeness. And if he is our Father we are made after his image and likeness.”
“I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.”
“Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.”

Source : William Cobbett (1820). “Cobbett's Political Register”, p.497
“People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.”

Source : "What would a second Obama term look like?" by Paul Gigot, www.foxnews.com. September 08, 2012.
“Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that. What else can I say ? he was a young, excitable man. To him, drugs were plentiful, and that was no good. I talked to him like he was a son of mine. He was a great and he was gonna be greater. But he was part of the "in-crowd" and so he never got there”
“Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.”
“The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.”

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