"Caffeine gives me hope. Sometimes, when I brew my wicked strong Irish black tea just perfect, about halfway through the mug I feel a clear and overwhelming feeling of optimism. It didn't surprise me when a study a few years ago implied that suicide was much less likely among coffee and tea drinkers."

-- John Vanderslice

#Suicide Quotes #Strong Quotes #Coffee Quotes

“You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering park like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber.”

Source : S. E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.28, Penguin
“All one can do is to achieve nakedness, to be what one is with all one's faculties and perceptions, strengthened by all the skill which one can acquire. And then to stand before the judgement of time.”
“Every injustice that has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian country has been â€œauthorized by the Bibleâ€ and riveted and perpetuated by the pulpit.”
“It's really important for me to look good before a race. I definitely think if I feel I look good, it makes me feel more confident.”
“The Iraq war is a huge subject and there have been many films about it. But it was when the private contractors started taking over and taking responsibilities from the regular army, which hides the war. You have these private armies of mercenaries acting with immunity for their actions, the worst of which was the Blackwater case where they killed 17 Iraqi civilians and the guys who did it just went home. We [screenwriter Paul Laverty and Loach] felt this deserved a story.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“Editors always want to know what you're working on, what you're thinking about.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“Alric looked up at the thief with a scowl. â€œI just want to say for the record that as far as royal protectors go, youâ€™re not very good.â€ â€œItâ€™s my first day,â€ Royce replied dryly. â€œAnd already Iâ€™m trapped in a timeless prison. I shudder to think what might have happened if you had a whole week.”
“Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.”

Source : Thurgood Marshall's speech at the National Convention of Alpha Phi Alpha in St. Louis, Missouri (August 15, 1966) as quoted in "St. Louis Globe-Democrat" (p. 1), August 17, 1966.

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