"I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered."

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Source : Jean Ingelow (1873). “Off the Skelligs: A Novel”, p.571

Jean Ingelow

#Life Quotes #Thank You Quotes #Prayer Quotes

“I love you, you see...and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted.......Or not obviously”
“Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?”
“If you have team spirit you can even beat better teams. As far as team sport is concerned China might need a change in attitude in comparison to the one in table tennis.”

Source : Source: www.china.org.cn
“I don't feel like taking anybody's money.”
“I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.”
“Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise that it's just fictional stories for entertainment.”
“The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing and understanding more is better than knowing and understanding less.”

Source : William A. Henry, III (2015). “In Defense of Elitism”, p.71, Anchor
“Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries and see the synonyms of the word Black. It's always something degrading and low and sinister. Look at the word White, it's always something pure, high and clean. Well I want to get the language right tonight. I want to get the language so right that everyone here will cry out: 'Yes, I'm Black, I'm proud of it. I'm Black and I'm beautiful!'”

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