"That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture."

-- Tariq Ali

#Country Quotes #Reality Quotes #Political Quotes

“I shot Footloose nearby, and we used to hike. Very fond memories.”
“When you're the first person whose beliefs are different from what everyone else believes, you're basically saying, "I'm right, and everyone else is wrong." That's a very unpleasant position to be in. It's at once exhilarating and at the same time an invitation to be attacked.”
“Between gods and men, territories are set up. At least in the no-manâ€™s land of the heights of heaven, the depths of hell, and inside the boundary traced by the oceans. Dimensions installed by a cosmogonic trilogy that leaves each term in its generic place. There remains the earth ancestress, a fourth term, that was once the most fertile, that has been progressively buried and forgotten beneath the architectonic of patriarchal sovereignty. And this murder erupts in the form of ambivalences that have constantly to be solved and hierarchized, in twinned pairs of more or less good doubles.”
“Michel Platini is a good player, not a great player”
“To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.”
“Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemyâ€”love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.”

Source : Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.213, Penguin
“Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption. "Corruption" is a popular word with the enthusiasts of the Dominion, usually uttered as a prelude to the knife, the docket, or the noose.”
“This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.”

Source : Interview with Dennis M. Kelly, chicagomusicguide.com. September 9, 2004.

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