"How much can a dragon carry? As much as it thinks it can"

-- Anne McCaffrey

#Thinking Quotes #Dragons Quotes

“We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.”
“If future history is not to be just one damned thing after another in space, then what we really have to do is in some way overcome this linear experience of time that makes all existence a quest for something that will never be found.And philosophies such as Zen seem to hint that this is possible.”
“The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”

Source : The Book of Laughter and Forgetting pt. 1, sec. 2 (1980) (translation by Michael Henry Heim)
“The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people.”
“I wanted to pay homage to someone who was such an important literary figure in my life. I think Langston Hughes would be proud of the picture Black Nativity, yet it's a contemporary story about a family living in Harlem. I named the lead character Langston, put a little bit of poetry in there, and some Langston Hughes quotes, and, of course, his stage play, Black Nativity.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com
“I hate to see anybody be unemployed, but if there's a certain segment of society I think it's political consultants and operatives.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“I always thought I was different.”
“How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.”

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