"I fell asleep at my desk many times. This was when working on eventsâ€”virtually every one Iâ€™ve done in the last 5 years. I was not confronting the writing of speeches. In fact, I was not wanting to confront what I was doing at the timeâ€”being irresponsible... I am now known for falling asleep. This has happened 50 times in the last 5 years and probably 20 times at my desk in the last 2 years."

-- Mike Rinder

#Fall Quotes #Writing Quotes #Years Quotes

“Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.”
“Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.”
“Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought to be. But no matter what political or religious direction such idealists choose, their visions always share one telling characteristic: in their utopias, heavens or brave new worlds, their greatest personal weakness suddenly appears to be a strength.”

Source : David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.320, Dial Press
“The idea seemed to be that if you prayed extremely hard--especially if a lot of people prayed at once--maybe God would change things. The trouble was, what if your enemy was praying, too? Which prayer would God listen to?”

Source : Jeanne DuPrau (2006). “The Prophet of Yonwood”, p.26, Random House Books for Young Readers
“Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.”
“A man must walk only his own path...Never another's or his feet will grow tired and sore. And he will feel lost even when he arrives.”
“To learn to play seriously is one of the great secrets of spiritual exploration.”

Source : Rachel Pollack (2002). “The Forest of Souls: A Walk Through the Tarot”, p.23, Llewellyn Worldwide
“The god which the vast majority of professing Christians love is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself has no relish for folly, but leniently winks at the indiscretions of youth...For one sin God banished our first parents from Eden; for one sin all the posterity of Canaan fell under a curse which remains over them to this day; for one sin Moses was excluded form the promised land; Elishaâ€™s servant smitten with leprosy; Ananias and Sapphira were cut off from the land of the living.”

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