"Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh."

-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Strong Quotes #Fear Quotes #People Quotes

“I believe that alternative healing methods are much more than just temporary or half measures.”

Source : "Helping People Doctor Themselves". Interview with Richard A. Passwater, wholefoodsmagazine.com. January 18, 2013.
“Besides, most of the books I like involve people I could never play in a million years.”
“It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going.”
“Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation?”
“That I've lasted is one of my greatest accomplishments. Maybe my greatest.”
“Sometimes one sees people butter their slices of bread with long, slow, admiring strokes in the same way in which Tom Sawyer's friends whitewashed the fence. Never butter an entire slice of bread at one time ...”

Source : Mary Elizabeth Clark, Margery Closey Quigley (1939). “Etiquette Every Child Should Know”
“Pure Christlike love flowing from true righteousness can change the world.”
“I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom.”

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