"As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty."

-- Wilfred Burchett

#Demand Quotes #France Quotes #Modesty Quotes

“All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.”
“I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.”
“Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty pod. If God sows you, you will bring forth fruit.”
“The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often make it possible for writing to be first; habits of years - responses to others, distractibility, responsibility for daily matters - stay with you, mark you, become you. The cost of discontinuity (that pattern still imposed on women) is such a weight of things unsaid, an accumulation of material so great, that everything starts up something else in me; what should take weeks take me sometimes months to write; what should take months, takes years.”

Source : Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.48, The Feminist Press at CUNY
“There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.”
“I always urged my contemporaries to look for interest and inspiration to the development and study of drawing, but they would not listen. They thought the road to salvation lay by the way of colour.”
“I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles--tabernacle and pharisee and parable, tresspass and Babylon and covenant.”
“I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.”

Source : "Obama, Hollande Agree on Debt Crisis Approach" by Alexis Simendinger, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 18, 2012.

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