"A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing compromise when compromise is wrong. But he must also be tender. No weapon will breach the armor of a woman's resentment like tenderness."

-- Elisabeth Elliot

#Men Quotes #Nails Quotes #Armor Quotes

“The only jewel which will not decay is knowledge.”

Source : John Alfred Langford (1880). “The Praise of Books as Said and Sung by English Authors: Selected with a Preliminary Essay on Books”
“Music should always be an adventure.”
“Nostalgia is heroin for old people.”

Source : Interview with Malcolm Hay, www.timeout.com. April 24, 2006.
“I'm not very good at multi-tasking. Most people aren't, but they think they are. The mind is really better when you're really focused on one thing.”
“The journey toward the heart is always a journey home.”
“A Dalit needs Jupiter's escape velocity to achieve success.”
“We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners, in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart.”

Source : Romeo LeBlanc's Speech on the occasion of the presentation of the 1996 Native Role Models, archive.gg.ca. February 23, 1996.
“Christians have oppressed Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Pagans, and each other throughout their centuries of power, preaching religious intolerance as the word of Jehovah whenever they had the military, political, or economic power to make it stick - and then piously preaching brotherhood, peace, and toleration when they didn't.”

Source : "Understanding the Religious Reich or The American and World-Wide Threat of Fundamentalism" by Isaac Bonewits, Version 2.6, www.neopagan.net. 1990.

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