"What if my words Were meant for deeds."

-- George Eliot

#What If Quotes #Deeds Quotes

“Rather than a profession, photography has always been a passion for me, a passion closer to an obsession.”

Source : Interview with Jonathan Blaustein, aphotoeditor.com. September 23, 2013.
“The problem is there are people in this country - maybe 10%, I don't know what the number, maybe 20% on a bad day - who want this President to have an asterisk next to his name in the history books, that he really wasn't President....They can't stand the idea that he is President, and a piece of it is racism. Not that somebody in one racial group doesn't like somebody in another racial group. So what? It is the sense that the white race must rule. That's what racism is. And they can't stand the idea that a man who is not white is President.”
“Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced.”
“It was so crucial to the Civil Rights Movement that on June 23, 1963, Martin Luther King came to town, walked down Woodward Avenue with more than 100,000 people and delivered the first major public iteration of his "I Have A Dream" speech, two months before he did it in Washington.”

Source : "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.
“Instead, we have found ourselves gasping for air in a sea of corruption, dysfunction, environmental degradation, waste, disenchantment and inequalityâ€”and the harder we compete, the more unequal we become.”

Source : Margaret Heffernan (2014). “A Bigger Prize: How We Can Do Better than the Competition”, p.13, PublicAffairs
“In some ways clarifying a vision is easy. A more difficult challenge comes in facing current reality.”
“Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.”
“One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.”

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