"But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them."

-- Henryk Sienkiewicz

#Long Quotes #Independence Quotes #Bedtime Quotes

“The way I would characterize what you said about me is I do try to say what I think as clearly as I can without first thinking, "Uh-oh, which way is the wind blowing and are people going to like this?"”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“When the journey's over/There'll be time enough to sleep.”

Source : 'A Shropshire Lad' (1896) no. 4
“Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we're tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.”
“happiness is a duty, not only because of its effect upon us but because of its influence upon others.”
“I wanted to go on the red carpet with a baseball cap, t-shirt, and jeans. And I still do. Because that's really who I am.”
“I answered their questions truthfully and honestly, but I would prefer not to say more. I assume the information was routed back and that is why I was not called to testify.”
“Long, long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.”

Source : Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson (1961). “The Decline of the West...: Perspectives of world-history”
“Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it.”

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