"What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish."

-- James Salter

#Writing Quotes #Impulse Quotes #Ultimate Quotes

“The seas will continue to rise no matter who gets elected president.”
“Build what you want to see in the world.”
“The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.”
“The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.”
“I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.”

Source : "Sen. Mike Lee on Libya: 'If This Drags On There Will Be Calls for Withholding Funding'". Interview with David Weigel, www.slate.com. March 23, 2011.
“A bar would not be a good career move for you.”
“I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.”
“The main one is that these apparel jobs are a very important means for young women in these countries to gain autonomy. The other big lesson is that it can't be just about activism. This is most clear to me in the case of China, where we do not have freedom of the press. If the press is free and can report on what's happening, then change happens.”

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