"I wanted everything to stay the same, but you wanted things to be better, it's just...going to be a whole lot worse for awhile first. And I think I knew that, and I was scared of it." - Marcus"

-- Dan Wells

#Thinking Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Scared Quotes

“The what-if's and the should-have's will eat your brain.”
“The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.”
“I encourage everyone to know that God has a plan for their life and that God never makes a mistake even though it seems like He is not listening or paying attention sometimes.”
“But God has to be given permission to work in this earth realm on behalf of man. You are in control! So if man has control, who no longer has it? God. When God gave Adam dominion, that meant God no longer had dominion. So God cannot do anything in this earth unless we let Him. And the way we let Him or give Him permission is through prayer.”
“Afro-Caribbean influences are in me as a creative being the same way Spanish influences were in Picasso's work. I think the notion of labels - "black dancer, black choreographer" -is a ploy to divide and conquer, and to limit.”
“I still want to be an architect and score films and do other things. I always said as long as I've still got teeth and hair and I look cool when I look in the mirror, then I'll do it.”

Source : Interview with David Drake, pitchfork.com. October 15, 2014.
“Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.”
“The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias”

Source : John Derbyshire (2009). “We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism”, p.154, Crown Forum

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