"I opened the Woodstock Festival even though I was supposed to be fifth. I said, 'What am I doing here? No, no, not me, not first!' I had to go on stage because there was no one else to go on first - the concert was already two-and-a-half hours late."

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Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Richie Havens

#Two Quotes #Goes On Quotes #Half Quotes

“Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns.”
“I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown. I am greatly supported in this view by reason of this great river [Ozama], and by this sea which is fresh.”

Source : Ruskin Bond (2008). “A Town Called Dehra”, p.4, Penguin Books India
“In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service.”

Source : Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller”
“Every time I look into the mirror, I want to see a man whose mother, sister, wife and daughter are proud to call their own.”

Source : FaceBook post by Farhan Akhtar from Mar 30, 2013
“I think I'm even more open and more giving as a father now. I pay more attention now because I value it more and I'm less caught up with my career.”
“There has been much talk referencing what I consider conceptual reports like the Landscape of Choice and documents created as a result of the Great Valley Center.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back upon God, leaving the Creator for the sake of the creature. What punishment would that subject deserve who, while his king was giving him a command, contemptuously turned his back upon him to go and transgress his orders? This is what the sinner does; and this is punished in hell with the pain of loss, that is, the loss of God, a punishment richly deserved by him who in this life turns his back upon his sovereign good.”
“I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.”

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