"We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that."

-- Marco Rubio

#Character Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Long Quotes

“But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. Was not Jesus an extremist for love: 'Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.'”
“Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off.”
“Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction.”
“I didn't ask you to catch me!" "You're so delightful when you're irrational. Of course I'm going to catch you." He slid a hand behind her nape and kissed her again. "It's what I do.”
“The ambition of the spiritual traveller never wants to stop with what it has been shown save that the voices of reality call to him, "what you seek is ahead of you.”
“All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.”

Source : Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.189, Northwestern University Press
“If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.”
“Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.”

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