"That first apartment was a big step. It has a lot to do with being independent."

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Irene Cara

#Independent Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Steps Quotes

“Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that's what everybody needs to know.”
“Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.”

Source : Jan Christian Smuts (1952). “Jan Christian Smuts: a biography”, William Morrow & Company
“Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age... Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'”
“That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.”
“All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.”

Source : Enemies of Promise (1938) ch. 16
“I suppose I knew on an intellectual level that graves weren't especially made for getting out of. I mean, you start with a hermetically sealed casket and then you dump six feet of dirt on top of it. Over time the earth gets compacted, which can't make it easy to dig through. So even if you're a very angry and determined zombie, you've kind of got your work cut out for you just escaping from the grave.”

Source : C.E. Murphy (2009). “Walking Dead”, p.253, Harlequin
“In reality the universe has no geometry.”
“Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.”

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