"Seize time by the forelock."

-- Pittacus of Mytilene

“Love is always creative, fear always destructive.”
“... the state is not absolute, and loyalty to the state cannot be absolute.”

Source : Petra Karin Kelly (1994). “Thinking green!: essays on environmentalism, feminism, and nonviolence”, Parallax Pr
“The constitution is a sacred document in a democracy.”
“I tend to always carry a camera with me. I live next to a fire station, and I've got lots of photos of the hook and ladder coming out of the house. And I like food, so I tend to photograph wonderfully presented food all the time. To me those are very pleasant memories.”
“Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.”

Source : Robert Macfarlane (2004). “Mountains of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the Summit”, Vintage Books
“You can never make someone punctual who is not, or quick who is slow, or lively who wants to plod on carefully. I have learnt that every fault is an exaggerated quality, nothing else.”
“I never knew until I came here [Hollywood] that somebody could be really nice to you for years and really hate your guts. Happens all the time here.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I like to think about the genre, the essay or the memoir, as much as I enjoy writing within its fluid parameters. And teaching allows me to think about it, to articulate it, and to explore it.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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