"I sat there beside him till morning - and as I watched his face in the starlight, then the first ray of the sun on his untroubled forehead and closed eyelids, what I experienced was not a prayer, I do not pray, but that state of spirit at which a prayer is a misguided attempt: a full, confident, affirming self-dedication to my love of the right, to the certainty that the right would win and that this boy would have the kind of future he deserved. . . . I did not expect it to be as great as this - or as hard."

-- Ayn Rand

#Love Quotes #Morning Quotes #Prayer Quotes

“I smoked this joint and then it hit me. I thought, what you gotta do is play your own simply blues.”
“Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.”
“Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala," I say with an affected bow.”
“Mitt Romney, you can criticize him for a lot of things, and that's fair, but he knows how the economy works.”

Source : "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien". www.cnn.com. September 7, 2012.
“Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?”

Source : Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.47, Mondial
“I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around.”
“In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves.”
“Abraham Lincoln was not philosopher, exactly. But he did have a strong mind, which sought generalizations as well as particulars. He had a terrific memory.”

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