"I spent a lot of time playing in miserable places that were not a lot of fun. Somebody once said it is character building and I was like: My character is just fine."

-- Diana Krall

#Fun Quotes #Character Quotes #Miserable Quotes

“The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.”
“None of us, irrespective of our sexual preference and/or practice, imagine that we can have an intimate relationship with a partner and always have seamless harmony. Indeed, most of us assume that once the â€œhoneymoonâ€ period is over differences will emerge and conflicts will happen. Positively, we also assume that we will be â€œsafeâ€œ in those moments; that even if voices are raised and emotions expressed are intense, there will not be and should not be any abuse or any reason to be unsafe, and that the will to connect and communicate will prevail.”
“I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops.”
“In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of nonviolence and the Christian ethic of love is the best weapon available to Negroes for this struggle for freedom and human dignity. It may well be that the Gandhian approach will bring about a solution to the race problem in America. His spirit is a continual reminder to oppressed people that it is possible to resist evil and yet not resort to violence.”
“In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.”

Source : Samuel George Morton, George Combe (1839). “Crania Americana; Or, A Comparative View of the Skulls of Various Aboriginal Nations of North and South America: To which is Prefixed an Essay on the Varieties of the Human Species”, p.7, Philadelphia : J. Dobson ; London : Simpkin, Marshall
“The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural.”
“You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.”
“This is not the first time that Mexican authorities have handed over an Arab from a country with known Al Qaeda connections to a local sheriff across the border. FBI picks them up and disappears”

Source : "Exclusive! Rep. John Culberson". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. November 18, 2005.

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