#tan

And then there are always clever people about to promise you that everything will be all right if only you put yourself out a bit... And you get carried away, you suffer so much from the things that exist that you ask for what can't ever exist. Now look at me, I was well away dreaming like a fool and seeing visions of a nice friendly life on good terms with everybody, and off I went, up into the clouds. And when you fall back into the mud it hurts a lot. No! None of it was true, none of those things we thought we could see existed at all. All that was really there was still more misery-- oh yes! as much of that as you like-- and bullets into the bargain! ↗

— Émile Zola

#germinal #misery #tancock #dreams

I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry. ↗

— Rodney Alexander

#among #because #been #endorse #failure

The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#been #body talks #clinical #constant #crimes

The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves. ↗

— R.C. Sproul

#hypocrisy #repentance #faith

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. ↗

— David Viscott

#between #faith #life #man #merely

I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#clark #hate #i #jazz #like

I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic.' ↗

— Agnetha Faltskog

#film #i #like #sing #something

The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest. ↗

— Bob Hawke

#important #loudest #most #scream #things

Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow. ↗

— Dennis Banks

#follow #importantly #lays #meaning #meaning of

And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing. ↗

— Dennis Banks

#legal #moral #native #people #realized