"Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again."

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Source : Kiran Desai (2006). “Inheritance of Loss”, p.323, Penguin Books India

Kiran Desai

#War Quotes #Men Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.”
“It is really not the wilderness that needs management (it has been doing quite well, after all, for a couple of billion years), but people.”
“For some odd reason, I like a man in sweatsuits. Obviously, you want your man to look good in a suit, but I like when men look comfortable, and the swagger just stands out of that.”
“A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.”
“I've chosen not to challenge the rule of law, because in our system there really is no intermediate step between a Supreme Court decision and violent revolution. When the Supreme Court makes a decision, no matter how strongly one disagrees with it, one faces a choice are we, in John Adams' phrase, a nation of laws, or is it a contest made on raw power?”
“We are of such value to God that He came to live among us... and to guide us home. He will go to any length to seek us, even to being lifted high upon the cross to draw us back to Himself. We can only respond by loving God for His love.”
“Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.”
“Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake.”

Source : Larry Hagman, Todd Gold (2001). “Hello Darlin': Tall (and Absolutely True) Tales About My Life”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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