"Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain."

“How was it possible for the world to be so beautiful and so cruel at the same time?”

Source : Lian Hearn (2008). “Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori”, p.98, Pan Macmillan

“Michael Sanchez and I grew up in New Jersey, not far from here, playing soccer together. When I was in high school, I worked to start an organization to help senior citizens, which I learned a great deal from.”

Source : "Exclusive Interview: Prom's Thomas McDonell". Interview with Carly Nelson, www.seventeen.com. April 28, 2011.

“Success is deciding from the start what end result you want and creating the circumstances to realize that result.”

“If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education? What is the rationale for authorizing for-profit charters or charter management organizations with high-paid executives, since their profits and high salaries are paid by taxpayers' dollars?”

Source : Diane Ravitch (2013). “Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools”, p.219, Vintage

“On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.”

“I sort of feel I'm only as good as the last record I made. I was on as soon as I finish it I immediately put it aside and move on to the next project.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com

“Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.”

Source : Philip Gourevitch (2015). “We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Picador Classic”, p.72, Pan Macmillan

“They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.”

Source : "The Sun Watches the Sun". Book by Dejan Stojanovic, "A Thought about Ourselves" (p. 122), 1999.