"They never exhale, the trees; on a very windy day, they rustle and inhale, and then the leaves and the branches all tremble as though something means to strangle the life from them. The sky watches on. The world is filled with anticipation, as if to wonder if this day will be a great day, or a horrible day, or the last day."

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Source : FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Jul 12, 2013

Lauren DeStefano

#Mean Quotes #Sky Quotes #Tree Quotes

“GEJ is the only president in recent years who did not allocate a single oil bloc to anybody, not to talk of himself. And these are the areas where you can tell corruption in its true colour. He did not allocate oil bloc to himself, family or friends up till now. He also did not give a single marginal field to himself or anybody else even though he is the only president that comes from the Niger Delta where the oil is coming from.”
“All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.”
“Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.”
“These days, it's often women in uniform - moms, wives, even grandmothers - who deploy and leave their families behind.”

Source : "House women DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 04, 2012.
“Dealing with people, my friends, is really nothing more than a question of the price that one is willing to pay. The better you understand life, the more capital you build.”

Source : Gregor Von Rezzori (2012). “An Ermine in Czernopol”, p.18, New York Review of Books
“I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned”
“My career in the movie business began in Hong Kong, my heart has always been tied to Asia, and it is immensely gratifying to see international recognition for Asian cinema as a whole.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.”

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