"A generous and noble spirit cannot be expected to dwell in the breasts of men who are struggling for their daily bread."

-- Dionysius of Halicarnassus

#Struggle Quotes #Adversity Quotes #Men Quotes

“What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting location from crisis to crisis, moving on as soon as the law catches up.”
“In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get on a television show. It never would have happened.”
“Christianity also stands in opposition to intellectual, as well as physical, health. To doubt becomes sin. 'Faith means not wanting to know what it true' a description that strikes me as stunning and quite exact.”

Source : Robert Sheaffer (1991). “The Making of the Messiah: Christianity and Resentment”
“Anyone who has fallen into fornication, adultery or any other such bodily impurity, should desist from this revolting filth and cleanse himself through confession, tears, fasting and the like. For God judges unrepentant fornicators and adulterers. He condemns them, dismisses them and consigns them to hell, unquenchable fire and other never-ending punishments, saying, 'Let the impure and accursed be taken away, lest they see and enjoy the glory of the Lord' (cf. Isa. 26:10 LXX).”
“The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.”
“I rowed for Cambridge. I was pretty good at that.”
“The reality is that we have missed a lot of opportunities in Iraq because of a failed policy.”
“We can't hold on to anyone or anything, you know. We lose everything except that which we carry within us.”

Source : Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.160, Crown

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