"Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time."

-- E. M. Forster

#Book Quotes #Long Quotes #Criticism Quotes

“Today is a good day to be a GIANT!!! Hell everyday is a good day to be a GIANT!! Y'all have a blessed day”
“If you want to play something that you can't, you need to see and hear yourself doing it in your minds eye. It will start to happen”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 24, 2010
“Now it is the least developed world who are not responsible for this climate change phenomenon that bore the brunt of climate change consequences so it is morally and politically correct that the developed world who made this climate change be responsible by providing financial support and technological support to these people.”
“Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.”
“My friend Kurt Maix once described this diffidence as Fear's friendly sister, the right and necessary counterweight to that courage that urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction.”

Source : "The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger".
“We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.”
“Obviously radical Islamic terrorism is a big problem, but there are all sorts of kinds of horrific terrorism that take place.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“Conventional cancer treatments are in place as the law of the land because they pay, not heal, the best.”

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