"If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect."

-- Angela Thirkell

#Long Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“But . . . I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that I always knew in my heart Walt Whitmanâ€™s mind to be more like my own than any other manâ€™s living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.”
“My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields...it's more like a poem...and that's what I want to paint.”
“And you must tell the child the legends I told you--as my mother told them to me and her mother to her. You must tell the fairy tales of the old country. You must tell of those not of the earth who live forever in the hearts of the people...”
“Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.”
“I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people.”

Source : Louis Antoine de Saint-Just's remarks on declaring the Minister of War, Charles François Dumouriez, a traitor (March 1793), as quoted in David William Bates "Enlightenment Aberrations: Error and Revolution in France" (p. 169), 2002.
“Guilt is a weird thing to me. I don't have a lot of it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We make each other alive; it doesnâ€™t make a difference if it hurts.”
“A leaf that falls into a stream (or a leaf we intentionally drop into a stream) just where the water disappears into the ground...will come out again at the next opening, because the underground stream has faithfully carried it there, though during this journey it has been beyond the reach of any outside interference. In the same way, an idea that has been introduced into our minds (or that we ourselves have intentionally introduced) will produce its effects after longer or shorter subconscious development.”

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