"You’re walking down life’s road, society’s foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you can’t get from under that foot. And you reach a fork in the road and you can either lie down and die, or insist upon your life."

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Source : "Civil-rights Folk Legend Odetta Dies At 77" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. December 3, 2008.

Odetta

#Lying Quotes #Feet Quotes #Down And Quotes

“If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.”
“I haven't always been warmly welcomed for holding my conservative positions in Hollywood. Then again, I've never been very good at being politically correct either, on or off screen. So why start now?”
“The question is not whether or not you will face trials. The question is, how will you respond when you do?”

Source : Trip Lee (2015). “Rise: Get Up and Live in God's Great Story”, p.150, Thomas Nelson Inc
“The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.”
“Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.”
“Women are most adorable when they are afraid; that's why they frighten so easily.”
“Say not: â€œWhen I have free time I shall studyâ€, for you may perhaps never have any free time”
“For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club opens up is that people can read a book and then have someone else to talk about it with. Then they see that a book can lead to the pleasure of conversation, that the solitary act of reading can actually be a part of the path to communion and community.”

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