"Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible."

-- Dean Koontz

#Use Quotes #Talent Quotes #Obligation Quotes

“I really beleive that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let's say 100,000 miles, their outlook wouls be fundamentally changed . The all-important border would be invisible, that noisy arguement suddenly silenced. The tiny globe would continue to turn, serenely ignoring its subdivisions, presenting a unified facade that would cry out for unified understanding, for homogeneous treatment. The earth must become as it appears: blue and white, not capitalist or communist; blue and white,not rich or poor; blue and white, not envious or envied.”
“All beauty contains darkness.”

Source : Daniel Odier (1997). “Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love”, p.48, Simon and Schuster
“Life, when fully lived under a variety of cultural conditions, can be euphoric and optimistic; it can be a joy to experience and a wonder to behold.”

Source : Paul Kurtz (2010). “Forbidden Fruit: The Ethics of Secularism”, p.298, Prometheus Books
“To a bystander like me, those who made 190 million pounds deliberately underselling the shares of HBOS, in spite of its very strong capital base, and drove it into the bosom of Lloyds TSB Bank, are clearly bank robbers and asset strippers.”
“I naturally want to be provocative.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you.”
“Says one brother to another, 'Joseph says all covenants are done away, and none are binding but the new covenants; now suppose Joseph should come and say he wanted your wife, what would you say to that? I would tell him to go to hell.' This was the spirit of many in the early days of this Church...”
“I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature,”

Source : John Berryman (2014). “77 Dream Songs: Poems”, p.16, Macmillan

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