"Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains."

-- U Thant

#Government Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Ideology Quotes

“When I used to write songs, especially on my own, it was just me and a guitar.”
“It is apparent at first glance that in The Double there is more creative talent and depth of thought than in Poor Folk. But meanwhile the consensus of St. Petersburg readers is that this novel is intolerably long-winded and therefore terribly boring...”
“Manchester United are substituting Blomqvist for Giggs just to bring more legs into the game.”
“When you are offended or annoyed by others, do not allow your thoughts to dwell on them or on anything relating to them. For example, don't think that they ought not to have treated you so, being who they are, or whom they think themselves to be, or the like. All this is fuel and kindling of wrath, anger, and hatred.”
“I've been involved with Fantasy Football for more than 10 years now, and I'll keep competing each year as long as I'm still having fun. I like to play sports, and I like to compete, but I also have a wife and three daughters. This lets me stay involved with the sport I love and still spend quality time with my family too.”
“Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.”

Source : Jonathan Raban (1987). “For love & money: writing, reading, travelling, 1969-1987”
“Lewis obediently stared at her, and Kira tried to make her voice sound confident. â€œYou donâ€™t feel anything. Youâ€™re not afraid.â€ â€œI am,â€ came Vladâ€™s immediate reply. â€œIf you tell him wolves are the children of the night next, I might hurt myself laughing.”
“It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.”

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