"The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow."

-- Edward Abbey

#World Quotes #Bigger Quotes #Folks Quotes

“We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and ... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.”
“The agnostic does not simply say, "l do not know." He goes another step, and he says, with great emphasis, that you do not know. He insists that you are trading on the ignorance of others, and on the fear of others. He is not satisfied with saying that you do not know, -- he demonstrates that you do not know, and he drives you from the field of fact -- he drives you from the realm of reason -- he drives you from the light, into the darkness of conjecture -- into the world of dreams and shadows, and he compels you to say, at last, that your faith has no foundation in fact.”
“My skin was the border between the world and me.”

Source : Aleksandar Hemon (2012). “The Question of Bruno”, p.13, Pan Macmillan
“I've had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started.”
“I have . . . a deep concern with the development of a literature worthy of our past, and of our destiny; without which literature certainly, we can never come to much. I have a deep concern with the development of an audience worthy of such a literature.”
“And I'm, whether I want it or not, a front figure for the team, a guy that talks about how the team is doing and represents the team.”
“The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.”

Source : "Samuel L Jackson: 'Now we got the movie stuff out of the way, let's talk about something serious'" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2008.
“It is life, more than death, that has no limits.”

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