Quotes about still
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“The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws--everybody seems to think that man is a noble savage. But he's only an animal. A meat-eating, talking animal. Recognize it. He also has grace and love and beauty. But don't say to me we're not violent.”

Sam Peckinpah (1925–1984) American film director and screenwriter

Playboy, August 1972

Love, Making love, Law, Beauty

“When the light of the sun shines through a prism it is broken into beautiful colours, and when the prism is shattered, still the light remains. So does the life of life shine resplendent in the forms of our friends, and so, when their forms are broken, still their life remains; and in that life we are united with them; for the life of their life is also our life, and we are one with them by ties indissoluble.”

Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer

Section 8 : Suffering and Consolation
Life and Destiny (1913)

Life, Beauty, Light, Sun

“It seems amazing that those who advocate energy conservation haven't noticed what happens: As soon as some energy is freed up by conservation, the technological world-system gobbles it up and demands more. No matter how much energy is provided, the system always expands rapidly until it is using all available energy, and then it demands still more.”

Theodore Kaczynski (1942) American domestic terrorist, mathematician and anarchist

Source: Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How (2015), p. 56

World

“Profits, wages and salaries are still determined not by any conditions of national interest or social justice, but by the traditional methods of laisser-faire. Under conditions of full employment, this must result in a continuous inflationary pressure, which undermines the real value of social security and small savings, as well as making our products less competitive in foreign markets and so jeopardising our capacity to maintain the standard of living.”

Richard Crossman (1907–1974) British Member of Parliament

‘Introduction’, New Fabian Essays (1952), pp. 26–27

Making love, Justice

“I still like the guys in the suit myself, I mean I was a guy in a suit I guess, but I think it still can be fun to do.”

Bob Burns III (1935) American film historian and actor

Video Exclusive: Interview With Bob Burns https://makeupmag.com/video-exclusive-interview-with-bob-burns-2/ (October 29, 2013)

Guy, Thinking

“People aren’t stupid. They just want to believe in others. They just want to believe that the world isn’t coming to an end. And more importantly, they just want to believe in themselves. They want to believe that they can still trust their fellow human being to do the right thing.”

Jason Tanamor (1975) Filipino-American Author and Writer

Source: Novels, Anonymous (2013), Chapter 1

People, Stupidity, World

“Lord yes, in a certain sense it was a preventive war, [motivated by] the constant threat of attack, the greater likelihood of its inevitability in the future, and by the military's claim: today war is still possible without defeat, but not in two years! Yes, the generals. It could only have been avoided by a rapprochement with England, that is still my conviction. But after we had decided for a [common] policy with Austria, we could not desert her in such danger.”

Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856–1921) German chancellor during World War I

Remarks to Conrad Haussmann (24 February 1918), quoted in Konrad H. Jarauschl, ‘The Illusion of Limited War: Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg's Calculated Risk, July 1914’, Central European History, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Mar., 1969), p. 48

War, Motivation, Sense, Future

“If you are right among the wrong people, you may even be right, but you will still be seen as wrong.”

Valter Bitencourt Júnior (1994) Brazilian poet and writer

People

“Some people found error messages they couldn't ignore more annoying than wrong results, and, when judging the relative merits of programming languages, some still seem to equate "the ease of programming" with the ease of making undetected mistakes.”

Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002) Dutch computer scientist

Dijkstra (1976-79) On the foolishness of "natural language programming" https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html (EWD 667) 1970s

People, Error

“The safest way to transport a sick newborn, so hospital wisdom goes, is when it is still inside its mothers.”

Perri Klass (1958) American pediatrician and writer

[Baby Doctor, https://books.google.com/books?id=8VAsAAAAYAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=newborn, 1992, 249, Random House, 978-0-679-40957-1]

Wisdom, Way

“[Canada] is an imperfect country, but it is still a great country, just as John A. Macdonald was an imperfect man but was still a great leader.”

Jason Kenney (1968) Canadian politician and 18th Premier of Alberta

On the renaming of Langevin School in Calgary to Riverside School https://globalnews.ca/news/7912688/alberta-indigenous-history-jason-kenney-cancel-culture/ (1 June 2021) 2020s

Country

“This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

World, Thinking, Science

“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States

Way, Wise

“All is flux; nothing stays still.”

Heraclitus (-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher

“The moon is still bright;
The lights below the hills are still on;
The sky is still full of stars
Hanging like dreams.”

Lin Huiyin (1904–1955) Chinese architect and writer

(zh-CN) 一样是月明，
一样是隔山灯火，
满天的星
只使人不见，
梦似的挂起。
"Do Not Throw Away" (《别丢掉》), translated by Michelle Yeh in A Chorus for Peace: A Global Anthology of Poetry by Women (University of Iowa Press, 2002), p. 41
Variant translation:
The moon is still so bright;
Beyond the hills the lamp sheds the same light.
The sky besprinkled with star on star,
But I do not know where you are.
It seems
You hang above like dreams.
Xu Yuanchong, Vanished Springs: The Life and Love of a Chinese Intellectual (Vantage Press, 1999), pp. 44–45

Dreams, Star, Light

“It still felt like hauling buckets from a well of memory with a rope that burned his hands.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 2 (p. 35)

Memory

“I expect death will still be cheap and always available, doesn’t take high tech.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Cryoburn (2010), Chapter 18 (p. 345)

Death

“It's amazing how even with the language barrier women still communicate. You talk to women around the world and you find out we all have the same problems.”

Beverly White (1928–2021) American politician

As quoted in Tooele Transcript-Bulletin https://archive.ph/rZrYW (October 12, 1995) State in regards to the World Conference on Women, 1995

Women, World, Communication, Problem

“Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth.”

Unknown author

Life, Smile, Funny, Cute

“You're Still You”

Josh Groban (1981) American musician and actor

lyrics by Linda Thompson

“God is not interested in the freedom of black men or brown men or yellow men. God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race, the creation of a society where every man will respect the dignity and worth of personality. So when we sing We Shall Overcome, we are singing a hymn of faith, a hymn of optimism, a hymn of faith in the future.
I can still sing that song because I have faith in the future. I believe that we, as Negroes, are going to gain our freedom in America because the goal of America is freedom. Abused and scorned though we may be, our destiny is tied up with the destiny of America.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution (1965)

Men, God, Faith, Optimism

“The Divine Energy is listening to us when we speak to other people, but also when we are still and silent and able to accept solitude as a blessing.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Solitude

People, Solitude

“So near at hand is freedom, and is anyone still a slave?”

Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXVII: On Taking One’s Own Life

Freedom

“When I was a child, I used to think that rabbits were gnomes, and that if I held my breath and stayed quite still, I should see the fairy queen.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

Indicating with a reserved gesture that this was just the sort of loony thing I should have expected her to think as a child, I returned to the point.
Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

Thinking

“In reality, there is no truth in socialism, because it has never worked. Still smarting from the hard lessons of history, today's Marxist socialists have learned to swiftly bury truth and any truth-seekers, before they can become entombed themselves.”

L. K. Samuels (1951) American writer

“No Truth in Socialism: Why the ‘Crisis of Marxism’ Matters” https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/08/no_truth_in_socialism_why_the_crisis_of_marxism_matters.html American Thinker (Aug. 7, 2021)

Truth, History, Reality, Learning

“In this world of turmoil, I still believe in one thing strongly and that’s the flag and everything our country was built on.”

Tyler Eifert (1990) American football player, tight end

Why I Stand https://medium.com/@tylereifert/whyistand-95bbe57a2436 (September 9, 2017)

World, Country

“We’re still a mission diocese and we have missionary needs.”

Chad Zielinski (1964) Catholic bishop in the United States

Fairbanks bishop hopes move will help priest shortage https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-usa/2019/11/fairbanks-bishop-hopes-move-will-help-priest-shortage/ (November 12, 2019)

“Ask that merchant in human flesh what property is. He will tell you, pointing to the long bier that he calls a ship and in which he has herded and shackled men who still appear to be alive: “Those are my property; I bought them at so much a head.””

Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician

Question that nobleman, who has lands and ships or who thinks that the world has been turned upside down since he has had none, and he will give you a similar view of property.
Condemning the defense of Slavery, Galleys and Serfdom as property
On Property (24 April 1793)

Men, Appearance

“The search for Truth is not about running away from the things of this world but about understanding their ephemeral nature. And more than that, it is about discovering our true nature as an inherent stillness from where even the subtlest movements of phenomena are being perceived.”

Mooji (1954) Jamaican spiritual teacher

Greater than Sky, Vaster than Space, (2018), Part I

Truth, World, Search, Understanding

“Well, I remember!
I remember, don't worry
How could I ever forget?
It's the first time, the last time we ever met
But, I know the reason why you keep your silence up,
No you don't fool me.
The hurt doesn't show
But the pain still grows
It's no stranger to you and me.”

Phil Collins (1951) English musician, songwriter and actor

"In the Air Tonight"
Face Value (1981)

Pain, Fools, Silence, Time

“There are two kinds of thoughtforms: those which are mental and those which are the result of man's fears - these are unreal. But they become real, because every thought is real. Even if it is an astral thoughtform, it is still a potent force although it has no essential reality.”

Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) artist, author, esotericist

The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom (1980)

Fear, Reality

“From an early age, I tried to be funny for the adults. [...] I think I thought and feel still that I have to provide that in order for people to like me.”

John Mulaney (1982) American actor and comedian

People, Age, Feeling, Thinking

“Most things around are very similar in every respect, the music and the way people look. In order to be in a band, you have to have certain colors in your hair—still! Our image is striking because it is different, not because it is particularly outstanding.”

Sade Adu (1959) English singer-songwriter

On the appeal of her band in “Sade: Our 1985 Interview” https://www.spin.com/featured/sade-diamond-life-interview-may-1985/ in SPIN (2019 Jul 20) Music

People, Music, Color, Way

“Pauperism had become a portent. But its meaning was still anybody's guess.”

Karl Polanyi book The Great Transformation

Source: The Great Transformation (1944), Ch. 9 : Pauperism and Utopia

“The moment I understood that what's been keeping my success back is thinking that I'm still young, I grew up not in body shape but mind.”

Edykasawuli7

Thinking, Success

“In my mind, there is still the idea of fraternity in the Bible.”

Soong Ching-ling (1893–1981) Sun Yat-Sen's wife, Honorary President of the People's Republic of China (1893-1981)

In a letter written to her Japanese friend Fumiko Niki in 1978, 宋慶齡基督教思想之演變 https://exchristian.hk/wiki/doku.php/%E5%AE%8B%E6%85%B6%E9%BD%A1%E7%94%9F%E5%B9%B3%E4%B8%80%E7%94%9F%E6%B7%B1%E5%8F%97%E5%9F%BA%E7%9D%A3%E4%BF%A1%E4%BB%B0%E5%BD%B1%E9%9F%BF

Idea

“The negro workers are still unaware of the force that can give them union organization; happy industrialists.”

Albert I of Belgium (1875–1934) third King of the Belgians

The visit of King Albert I to the Belgian Congo in 1928. Between propaganda and reality. https://www.congoforum.be/Upldocs/Het_bezoek_van_koning_Albert_I_aan_Belgi.compressed.pdf

Happiness

“People have begun to engage in mutual aid and support for their neighbours. Even if people didn't have much, they were still looking out for each other. Through this, we began to see the ways in which new webs were being constructed.”

Opal Tometi (1984) Nigerian–American writer, strategist and community organizer

Black Lives Matter Was Always Designed to Be a Global Movement, Vice] (7 July 2020)

People, Way, Support

“It was very difficult not to want to go into acting because it is in my blood and I still feel to this day that a dressing room is like another home.”

Sabina Franklyn (1954) British actress

Sabina Franklyn Table Manners Interview https://theatresoutheast.com/sabina-franklyn-interview/ (June 22, 2015)

Feeling, Home

“Impossible's possible
I know 'cause I lost it all
I know the price of my ego
It's lethal
I still got the hots for you”

Example (musician) (1982) English rapper and singer

"Blood from a Stone" (song) ("Blood from a Stone" on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBBrHsrecN4 Studio albums, The Evolution of Man (2012)

“How can you be qualified as a genius without knowing the primary factors that made you to be so in the first place? Without knowing the cause, shows that you are still ignorant of your own existence.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“How can you find peace or label yourself as being 'free' while you are still terrified of Mondays?!”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Peace

“I was asleep but my mind was awake. Now, I'm awake, but my mind is still asleep.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“If you still want to keep dreaming, then go back to sleep. But if you want to succeed then wake up and act.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Dreams, Sleep

“In our generation, we have moved away only one step from slavery. The difference is that, every work deserves a payment nowadays. But the employees are still under the mercy of the employer.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Julius conquered the minds and Jesus conquered the hearts during his time. Both of them are still famous until today.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Time, Heart

“My eyes are too shy to deceive me; because I am still young and fresh.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“No matter how big the size of the sun may appear to your imagination, but it will still fit into the scope of your eye.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Imagination, Appearance, Sun

“Perhaps, even in love, freedom can still be considered sweeter than peace. That is to say that, you are capable of scheduling and re-scheduling your plans without waiting for the approval of any third-party.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Love, Peace, Freedom, Waiting

“Religiously speaking, we are still in the year 2021; but science claims that the Earth is around 4.5 billion years old.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Science

“Skipping the basic methods will cost you more at the top than following the full process of doing things while you are still at the bottom of the ladder”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“The benefit of writing is that: No man can doubt the existence of Julius, but many are still in doubt whether Jesus existed or not. Mind over emotions.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Trust not these prophets of today, who are still using the same old Bible as a referencing point.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Adam and Eve were still ignorant and new residents of Heaven, yet the tree was placed there to test their IQ level.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Tree

“Being a parent is the most difficult profession in the whole universe. Thank God that you're still single.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

God, Parent, Universe

“God created everything, but humans are still ashamed to talk about themselves in the public domain.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

God

“I denounced the body and the mind. Still, that doesn't mean I should refrain from feeding the beast.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“I do not rely on the odds or held back by the circumstances, but my faith is still in God alone.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

God, Faith

“I've been frequently told that I'm worth more than what I thought. But I still don't see any difference in their opinions.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“It is not necessary to define the meaning of a shadow while you are still in the darkness.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Of course, every organ in your body matters. Except your feet and your hands. You can still live without them. They are part of you, but not the real YOU.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Parting

“Religions, including science, are still so immature. They did not find the location of the soul. Most of them are still in doubt.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Religion, Soul, Science

“The brain is the kind of beast you can't stop. Even after the soul leaves the body, what we call death, the brain can still function for a few seconds or even a few minutes.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Death, Soul

“The devil may seem clever and cunning, but he is still a creature of God. Therefore, God must take all the credits, both good and bad. But that means nothing to Him.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

God

“The devil still rebelled, despite having lived in paradise for many years.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“The fame and name of Jesus is still above most of the living people today, considering that, he died two thousand years ago.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

People

“The first child is also loved, when he is still the only child and there is the absence of someone who can take his place.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Love

“The Olympian doesn't mind the pain in training, but his eyes are still on the prize; which is the gold medal at the end of the game.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Pain, Game, Training

“The world is still the same, keeping the atmospheric pressure aside, but it's the minds that are busy wandering around. Ruin and flee from the present moment, while seeking for the future.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

World, Business, Future

“Time is still too complicated for us to comprehend and we cannot define it using our wristwatches, nor by using the big clocks on the wall.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Time

“You can imagine or pretend to know your partner, but you will still be surprised at the end of the day.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Imagination

“You can still get away with the speech, but the face reveals as much as it conceals.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“You can still reach the level of the angels by doing great deeds in your daily life.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Life, Angels

“A tax increase is still a tax increase, no matter what you call it.”

Eli Bebout (1946) American politician and businessman

As quoted in Casper Star-Tribune https://archive.ph/7h4Fk (March 27, 1994)

“It’s just skating, and I’ll survive, but at the same time, it’s hard because I’ve worked so long for this moment. It’s not the way I wanted it to go, but at the same time I’m telling everybody, you can fall and still get up and keep going.”

Mirai Nagasu (1993) American figure skater

After failure in performing a triple axel skating move during a women's short program in "Olympic Figure Skater Mirai Nagasu Gives A Perfect Interview After Falling During Her Short Program" https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a18559515/olympic-figure-skater-mirai-nagasu-falling-during-triple-axel/ in Elle (February 21, 2018)

Way, Time

“Nothing is more important than self-respect in our life. It hurts a lot if someone hurts our self-respect. It seems as if we have no value in their eyes, we are torn apart completely and we separate ourselves from the world, but still our self-respect does not allow us to live peacefully throughout life.”

Shabdon Ka Jahan

Life, World, Hurt

“It is a dull and obtuse mind, that must divide in order to distinguish; but it is a still worse, that distinguishes in order to divide. In the former, we may contemplate the source of superstition and idolatry; in the latter of schism, heresy! and a seditious and sectarian spirit.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher

'Aids to Reflection (1873), Aphorism 26

“The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is a great force leading to change.”

Kenneth Kaunda (1924) First President of Zambia

Kenneth Kaunda: Zambia's First President's Memorable Quotes, MSN.com, 17 June 2021 https://www.msn.com/en-xl/africa/other/kenneth-kaunda-zambias-first-presidents-memorable-quotes/ar-AAL9zVF,

Change

“If faith is a mystery, it is because its nature is inexpressible in the measure that it is profound, for it is not possible to convey fully by words this vision which is still blind, and this blindness which already sees.”

Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) Swiss philosopher

[2013, From the Divine to the Human, World Wisdom, 97, 978-1-936597-32-1]
Spiritual life, Faith

Faith, Nature

“I am an ambitious person and I consider myself as still quite young and I am convinced that I still have time to realize my ambitions.”

Petro Poroshenko (1965) Ukrainian businessman and politician

Interview to "Ukrains'ka Pravda" https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2009/01/26/3692330/ (26 January 2009)

Time, Personality

“Families don’t follow tradition as much as they used to. Family is still important, but many of the customs have fallen to the wayside. Some families, though, still hold onto tradition. Good, bad, or ugly.”

Jason Tanamor (1975) Filipino-American Author and Writer

Source: Novels, Vampires of Portlandia (2020), Chapter 5

Family

“He said the giant was a deity that offered salvation from a meaningless cycle of birth and rebirth, and perhaps the cracked stonework still possessed a lingering divinity.”

David Mitchell book Cloud Atlas

"An Orison of Sonmi~451", p. 329
Cloud Atlas (2004), An Orison of Sonmi~451 (Part 2)

Birth

“No one writes each other letters anymore, but I think there's something so special about receiving a really heartfelt letter, still.”

Lana Condor (1997) Vietnamese-American actress

As quoted in "To All the Boys Star Lana Condor on Making the Summer’s Best Rom-Com" in Vulture (14 August 2018) https://www.vulture.com/2018/08/to-all-the-boys-ive-loved-before-netflix-lana-condor-rom-com-interview.html

Thinking

“If you still thought evolution was about the good of the species, stop thinking so right now.”

Matt Ridley book Genome

Source: Genome (1999), Chapter X and Y “Conflict” (p. 113)

Thinking

“Theater is the only thing that still belongs to the people”

Miguel Piñero (1946–1988) Puerto Rican writer

As quoted in the book Captive Audience: Prison and Captivity in Contemporary Theatre https://books.google.com/books?id=oEKSAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq from a 1974 interview that Piñero did

People

“Workers who don’t share ownership of the robots will be reduced to political powerlessness far worse than their conditions today. We have the opportunity to solve this problem during the bootstrapping period while human labor is still needed for space industry.”

Sheyene Gerardi Venezuelan actor and model

[NASA CLASS Announces Collaboration With Actress Sheyene Gerardi, http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=38c46884-5abc-491a-89aa-c9bb0b71195c]

Problem

“The urge to control others is very strong, but the desire for freedom and the ability to show compassion will always survive. Darkness is everywhere, but the Light still appears.”

John Twelve Hawks book The Traveler

Source: Fourth Realm Trilogy (2005-2009), The Traveler (2005), Ch. 26

Freedom, Light, Strong, Appearance

“He bowed his head. He stood so still,
They bowed their heads as well.
And softly from the organ-loft
The song began to swell.

Come up with blood-red streamers,
The reeds began the strain.
The vox humana pealed on high,
The Spring is risen again!”

Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) English poet

The Lord of Misrule
The Lord of Misrule and Other Poems (1915)

Spring

“The autumn sun shone brightly. It was still the same sun and the same clouds. The sun didn’t care about the landscape inside people’s heads.”

Bruce Sterling book Islands in the Net

Source: Islands in the Net (1988), Chapter 1 (p. 16)

People, Autumn, Sun

“The Quranic conception of God was, and can still be, a revolutionary force of incalculable value for the attainment of human welfare.”

Mohammad Habib (1895–1971) Indian historian

quoted in Peter Hardy in Historians of India, Pakistan and Ceylon. by Philips, C. H. (Cyril Henry), 1912- https://archive.org/details/historiansofindi0000phil/page/298/mode/2up and in E. Sreedharan - A Textbook of Historiography, 500 B.C. to A.D. 2000-Orient blackswan (2019)

God

“Taxes are an evil—a necessary evil, but still an evil, and the fewer of them we have the better.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Churchill By Himself: The Definitive Collections of Quotations, ed. Richard Langworth, 2008, p. 424, (1907, 12 February)
Early career years (1898–1929)

Evil

“While still living in the palace, Abba Arsenius prayed to God in these words, "Lord, lead me in the way of salvation." And a voice came saying to him, "Arsenius, flee from men and you will be saved."”

Arsenius the Great (354–449) Desert Father

Sayings of the Desert Fathers, as translated by Benedicta Ward, SLG (Cistercian Publications: 1975), Saying 1, Page 9

Men, God, Way

“Even after a tiring day, I still have a lot of work to do. I have to think about my future, there are still many arrangements left to do to make my tomorrow better. Some wishes of my heart are yet to be fulfilled.”

Shabdon Ka Jahan

Thinking, Future, Heart

“We were promised change – but corruption and brutality still rule in Zimbabwe.”

Fadzayi Mahere (1985) Zimbabwean lawyer and politician

19 August 2019, The Zimbabwean.
Source: https://www.thezimbabwean.co/2019/08/we-were-promised-change-but-corruption-and-brutality-still-rule-in-zimbabwe/

Change

“But are we within likelihood? Are we even still within the realm of anything other than paranoid lunacy?”

Iain Banks Culture series

Source: Culture series, Matter (2008), Chapter 19 “Dispatches” (p. 357)

“Regarding the change in identity, I actually took the initiative to accept and work hard to change in this direction, because I feel that growing up on the stage is not as rewarding as recording a show, and I am still eager to go.”

Yang Li (1992) Chinese stand-up comedian

Original: 【开腔】杨笠：过去一年，反倒是我最不迷茫的一年
Source: [https://www.chinanews.com/yl/2021/10-12/9584866.shtml
(12 October 2021)

Feeling, Change

“It is worrying that 17 years after the Beijing Declaration, women have still not achieved the 50-50 representation with their male counterparts.”

Thokozani Khuphe (1963) Deputy Prime Minister of Zimbabwe

Khupe challenges girl child to perform exceptionally well at school https://bulawayo24.com/index-id-news-sc-local-byo-13737.html

Women

“We Croatians are suffering from an overdose of history during the past century. Of course we still have some nationalism. But the feelings are slowly cooling down.”

Zoran Milanović (1966) Croatian politician

Source: "'Germany Is a Role Model for Us'" in Speigel International https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/interview-with-croatian-prime-minister-milanovic-germany-is-a-role-model-a-856179.html (17 September 2012)

Feeling, History, Suffering, Past

“The most effective way to live is as a warrior. A warrior may worry and think before making any decision, but once he makes it, he goes on his way, free from worries or thoughts; there will be a million other decisions still awaiting him. That's the warriors' way.”

Carlos Castaneda book The Wheel of Time

Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)

Way, Thinking, Decision

“We still have forces that want to turn Baku into Beirut. Foreign forces are at work. We must be careful.”

Ayaz Mutallibov (1938–2022) Soviet politician, then president of Azerbaijan

Source: "Azerbaijani Leader, Restored To Power, Imposes Emergency Rule" in The Washington Post https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:epcCRJyvH3AJ:https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1992/05/15/azerbaijani-leader-restored-to-power-imposes-emergency-rule/c4a5d291-a743-4227-90db-54e0f9739b80/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us (15 May 1992)

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