"The truth of the matter is, we can certainly fight against terrorism and fight terrorist groups around the world without having to give up our own civil liberties. They're not mutually exclusive."

-- John Kiriakou

#Giving Up Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.”

Source : Wilkie Collins (2013). “The Woman in White”, p.16, Courier Corporation
“Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar! The will to neither strive nor cry, The power to feel what others give! Calm, calm me more! nor let me die Before I have begun to live.”
“I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.”
“I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson.”
“To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.”
“This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.”
“Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.”
“It's so trendy, almost bleeding to death. All the cool girls are doing it.”

Source : Francine Pascal (2012). “Fearless: Fearless; Sam; Run”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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