"All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds."

-- Sherwood Anderson

#Wind Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“I liked the idea that if something horrible was happening to one of the characters in the mental hospital, no one would believe them. The staff would just chalk it up to them being crazy. So it gives me a lot to work with.”
“How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world about them. People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. But magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And what is more, they find it everywhere.”
“It is too late to start For destinations not of the heart . I must stay here with my hurt.”
“I think my music is like anchovies - some people like it, some people get nauseous.”
“Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.”
“The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it.”

Source : Matilda Joslyn Gage (1893). “Woman, Church and State: A Historical Account of the Status of Woman Through the Christian Ages: with Reminiscences of Matriarchate”
“Bush's life is that a fundamentally decent man presided over a moment when politics got meaner and rougher. '88 was the year of the handler, of bringing in political consultants who played very hard and very tough'.”

Source : "George H.W. Bush". "The Presidents", www.pbs.org. May 5, 2008.
“I am blessed beyond my fondest dreams.”

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