"To put off the inevitable, we try to fix the city in place, remember it as it was, doing to the city what we would never allow to be done to ourselves. . . . New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy."

-- Colson Whitehead

#New York Quotes #Cities Quotes #Self Quotes

“Go safely. Go safely, she thought to him. what a silly, empty thing it was to say to anyone, anywhere.”

Source : Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.210, Penguin
“Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being.”
“I'm just an actor. I am nothing special.”
“As in Machiavelli, the bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his participation in politics as a responsible moral being; but the possession of land in nondependent tenure is now the material basis for bearing of arms.”

Source : J. G. A. Pocock (2016). “The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition”, p.390, Princeton University Press
“What drives me is a sense of urgency. We live in frightening times. Progress towards gender equality and vital battles to end discrimination on grounds such as race, age, sexuality and disability are stalling and in some places, reversing. This is happening because of the collapse of trust in nearly all public institutions, and in particular in politics and media, and the inescapable feeling that the current system isn't working for most people.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
“You don't ever have to teach a kid to do wrong. You have to teach them to do right.”
“I do triage on everything that comes through the door, and if it's not something we need (now, for real-not maybe someday) or something that deserves to be saved for posterity, it's discarded. I stop before I let myself drop something into a drawer or set it down on the piano. 'Where does it belong?' I think. If I don't have a place for it, I make a place.”
“To be honest, I was just honored to be in the same festival [ Raindance Film Festival's ] as Johnny To and Dominik Moll.”

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