"Hope. It is the most important thing in the world. I believe that now more than ever. Hope is what saved my life, hope is what gave me the courage and the strength to carry on. Hope â€“ that unshakeable, golden belief that things can get better."

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Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2012). “Execution: Escape from Furnace 5”, p.311, Macmillan

Alexander Gordon Smith

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“Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.”
“Paris Hilton has launched a new champagne in a can called Rich Prosecco. For the ad campaign Paris posed wearing nothing but gold paint. Thatâ€™s a unique way to cover up herpes.”
“American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.”
“(Carmine Crocco) A farm-labourer and cowherd, had joined the Bourbon army, killed a comrade in a brawl, deserted and lived as an outlaw for ten years. He joined the liberal insurgents in 1860 in the hope of an amnesty for his past offences, and subsequently became the most formidable guerilla chief and leader of men on the Bourbon side.”

Source : Eric J. Hobsbawm (1985). “Bandits”
“Light on my heart, Light on my feet, Light in your eyes, I can't even speak Do you even know, How you make me weak”
“I say, 'You can never use excuses because they always run out.”

Source : "Q&A – RJ Mitte (Walter Jr.)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com.
“The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the circumstances that separate her from her usual sources of comfort and stimulation, during office breaks to escape from the banal conversation of office mates, and at home to revolt against the pervasive and mind-deadening irrelevance of television.”
“There are ends, occasionally, with projects. That happens. But they are natural dead ends. It's usually the outside situation that demands an ending. I never really settle for one.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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