"There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial."

-- Walter Scott

#Character Quotes #Self Quotes #Excellence Quotes

“Perfect first date would be coffee at Aroma talking for hours. That's when I would know to ask for a second date.”

Source : "Crush of the Week: Kelly Blatz". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 9, 2010.
“In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of church reform. Anne was a passionate and sincere evangelical, the owner of a library of controversial reformist literature, and she was sympathetic to radical and even Lutheran ideas.”
“All too often, parents and kids struggle to find an empathetic ear when confronting bullying situation; these escalate and too often result in marginalization, on top of what may well be a daily gauntlet of harassment and abuse that is fundamentally torture.”
“The more you put yourself out there, the more there is for people to take exception with.”
“One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing.”
“Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.”

Source : Quoted in Paul Dickson, The Official Explanations (1980)
“I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not. I am, however, quite certain that I am having certain experiences, whether they be those of a dream or those of waking life.”
“In a structure as complex as the human brain a multitude of things can go wrong. The wonder is that for most people the brain functions effectively and unceasingly for more than 60 years.”

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