"I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account."

-- Preston Brooks

#Respect Quotes #Self Quotes #Calling Quotes

“When Marlee [Matlin] won her Oscar, she said, "and I just want to thank my parents." When I was saying those words for her, I knew my parents were in the audience. I was saying it for her and a little bit for myself, even though I wasn't saying it in sign language and they didn't understand what I was saying.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Education is critical for people to become compassionate. If you don't know the problem and you don't know the reality, how can you help?”
“The most original novelist now writing in English.”
“In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What is a black-and-white drawing but a convention to which the beholder has become so accustomed that with his mind's eye he sees a complete equivalent in the translation from nature?”
“Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.”

Source : Interview with Kerry O'Brien on "Lateline", ABC TV, 1995.
“The Seeker, The Search, The Sacred by Guy Finley is a very wise book, filled with inspiration to help you dramatically improve your life. I highly recommend it.”
“I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.”
“Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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