"Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things."

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Source : Cassandra Clare (2010). “Clockwork Angel”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

Cassandra Clare

#Done Quotes #Matter Quotes #Reason Quotes

“Put all our pride away, always find a gentle word to say, you know we shouldn't be full of ourselves when we should be full of humility .”

Source : "Song: 'Full of Humility' ('Road To Madinah')". 1998.
“It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot.”
“It's necessary in order to attract attention, to dazzle at all costs, to be disapproved of by serious people and quoted by the foolish.”

Source : Jill Johnston (1973). “Lesbian nation: the feminist solution”, Simon & Schuster
“Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the problem: this strange belief that a tree has nothing to say until it is murdered, its flesh pulped, and then (human) people stain this flesh with words. I would take children outside and put them face to face with chipmunks, dragonflies, tadpoles, hummingbirds, stones, rivers, trees, crawdads. That said, if you're going to force me to give them a book, it would be The Wind In The Willows, which I hope would remind them to go outside.”
“Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.”
“It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century”
“How many businesses do you know that want to cut their revenue in half? That's why the healthcare system won't change the healthcare system.”
“I'm living out my dreams and I love what I do.”

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