#central

When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#another #books #call #central #corps

So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country. ↗

— Walter Salles

#central #country #father #search #station

The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him. ↗

— Aharon Appelfeld

#also #become #besides #biography #cannot

The central problem of novel-writing is causality. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#central #problem

I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#being #central #child #i #i always

It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#been #both #central #coasts #containing

The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

#central #direction #fashions #greece #imagination

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. ↗

— Mark Skousen

#centrally #civilized #civilized society #civilized world #complete

One should measure their life by the faith they embrace and the relationships they cherish ↗

— John Paul Warren

#central-christian-church #john-paul-warren #leadership #motivational #sozo-life

Your circumstances do NOT define you. Expect a GRAND finale. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#central-christian-church #church #inspirational #john-paul #john-paul-warren