"It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable."

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Source : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#Reflection Quotes #Energy Quotes #Strange Quotes

“Everyone in their car needs love.”

Source : C. D. Wright (2012). “Deepstep Come Shining”, p.12, Copper Canyon Press
“I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.”
“It is my fixed conviction that if a parent can give his children a passionate and wholesome devotion to the outdoors, the fact that he cannot leave each of them a fortune does not really matter so much.”

Source : Archibald Rutledge (2015). “The Doom of Ravenswood”, p.34, Univ of South Carolina Press
“We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world leads through honest reconciliation of the conflicting interests and not through hatred and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance the moral power of the all-embracing idea of human solidarity.”
“I have more fun hanging out with my friends who are musicians and rock stars. You know politicians by and large are pretty stiff, pretty rehearsed.”
“I've met Nelson Mandela a couple of times and it was an unbelievable experience on both occasions; the most amazing moment of my life.”

Source : Source: amy-cricket.blogspot.com
“Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.”

Source : William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.6, Harper Collins
“I think a lot of people spend a lot of time talking about what they hate rather than what they love. I don't want to get trapped in that.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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