"But too many people now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater distance, even if they have to trample somewhat on the one who has been there so long."

-- Albert Camus

#Distance Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“There are few things more bizarre than watching people advocate that another country be bombed even while acknowledging that it will achieve no good outcomes other than safeguarding the 'credibility' of those doing the bombing. Relatedly, it's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national 'credibility' depend upon periodically bombing other countries.”

Source : "Obama, Congress and Syria" by Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2013.
“Many Of Them Have Things -- What They Lack Is The Richness Of Spirit”
“The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well”
“Selena Gomez. She’s a sweetheart, I met her a couple of times.”
“Multiple Inheritance is like a parachute. You don't often need it, but when you do, you really need it.”
“The church of the elect, which is partly militant on earth, and partly triumphant in heaven, resembles a city built on both sides of a river. There is but the stream of death between grace and glory. Death, to God's people, is but a ferry-boat.”

Source : Augustus Toplady (1825). “The works of Augustus M. Toplady”, p.274
“But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.”
“As Einstein himself pointed out. He said weâ€™re like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us we see only the present. We canâ€™t see the past, back in the bends and curves behind us. But itâ€™s there.”

Source : Jack Finney (2014). “Time and Again”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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