"Poetry challenges you. Much of its importance is that it's one of the few places left in culture that makes things difficult-it asks you to think, to perceive and not to take for granted what we think about the world."

-- Dan Beachy-Quick

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“To all the kids who looked up to me, I’m truly sorry for letting you down, but I hope it’s helped you learn that one bad decision can turn your dream into a nightmare. There is no excuse for domestic violence, and I apologize for the horrible mistake I made.”

Source : "At crossroads in quest to continue NFL career, Ray Rice asks forgiveness" by Aaron Wilson, www.baltimoresun.com. February 13, 2015.
“However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia.”

Source : Zbigniew Brzezinski (2007). “The Grand Chessboard”, p.49, Basic Books
“Our culture is something that has sustained us for thousands and thousands of years and will continue to do so in generations to come.”

Source : "Let-Them-Eat-Cake-Attitude Threatens to Destroy a Network of Public Assets" by Scott Turow, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2011.
“I never scrimmage Oilers against Oilers...What for? Houston isn't on our schedule.”
“Don't give me books for Christmas; I already have a book.”
“Love won't come through unless the heart is open. To work with an open heart is to love or care for something or someone more than you do for yourself. This is the first step to the divine love that we all are looking for.”
“Every aspect of life is pre-programmed to rise to its highest creative possibility. We don't have to make that happen, but we have to allow it to happen. And that itself is the struggle of life: resisting the resistant mind.”
“The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.”

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