"Sundown. The distressed sloop, its mainmast shattered by lightning, its sails ripped by the winds of the open sea, drifted into the small, quiet beach of a private island in the Lesser Antilles"

-- Robert Ludlum

#Beach Quotes #Wind Quotes #Sea Quotes

“Gun control laws don't work. What is worse, they act perversely. While legitimate users of firearms encounter intense regulation, scrutiny and bureaucratic control, illicit markets easily adapt to whatever difficulties a free society throws in their way. Also, efforts to curtail the supply of firearms inflict collateral damage on freedom and privacy interests that have long been considered central to American public life.”
“Pessimism is not only unwarranted, it is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you think the cause is lost, it will be. No one works hard for a cause they think will lose.”
“Mathematics is universal. It's discovered by human beings, but the rules of mathematics are the same throughout the universe and the laws of the universe.”
“I have experienced a murderer among my friends. Many, many years ago. At close range I have seen the impact of it. I knew the victim, I went to the funeral, I have been to the house, to the specific room where the killing took place, and I was stunned by it. It's such a blow.”
“The artistâ€™s memory is a dangerous, necessary thing. Never disavow what you see and remember-itâ€™s your brilliant stock-in-trade: remembering, and making something out of it. Artists remember the world as it is, first, because you have to know what it is youâ€™re reinventing; thatâ€™s a rule, perhaps the only one: being cognizant of your source material.”
“Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.”

Source : Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.43, Simon and Schuster
“Ireland unfree shall never be at peace”

Source : Speech at grave of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, 1 Aug. 1915
“Because America isn't perfect, it must be evil. Because Marxist regimes make claims of perfection, they must be good. ... Remind me again, was it John Ashcroft or Fidel Castro who put H.I.V. sufferers in concentration camps?”

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