"The self is made, not given"

-- Barbara Myerhoff

#Self Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Given Quotes

“Look, the president can discharge all 93 U.S. attorneys for no reason at all, but not for a bad reason.”
“Sometimes I want to joke but my English isn't perfect. Sometimes people are wondering what I'm talking about.”

Source : "Caps' Ovechkin says he is not ready to wear the 'C'". The Chronicle Herald, September 06, 2006.
“Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Firekeeper still could not understand the human penchant for eating in company. Even less so, she could not understand the human desire to combine business and meals. True, a wolf pack shared a kill, but not from any great desire to do soâ€”rather because any who departed the scene would be unlikely to get a share... She struggled...not to bolt her food and almost always remembered that growling when a person spoke to you was not a proper response.”
“A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart”
“You can linger too long in your dreams...”
“Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them.”

Source : Michael Bergdahl (2004). “What I Learned From Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World”, p.131, John Wiley & Sons
“The church should be a disciplined charging army. Christians, like slaves and solders ask no questions. We are fighting a holy war.”

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