"I have no sympathy for those who, under any pressure of circumstances, sacrifice their heart's-love for legal prostitution."

-- Harriet Martineau

#Heart Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Pressure Quotes

“If we let our head drop, our heart drops with it. Keep your head up, and your body is capable of amazing feats.”

Source : "Ironman champ: Train your brain, then your body" by Chrissie Wellington, www.cnn.com. February 21, 2012.
“I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.”
“Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.”
“In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of soulsâ€¦ generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field, to ponder and dream; and lo! the shadow of a mighty presence shall wrap them in its bosom, and the power of the vision pass into their souls.”

Source : Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1994). “Bayonet! Forward: my Civil War reminiscences”, Butternut & Blue
“College kids, don't be taking examples from me.”
“Take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.”
“Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in high school from those in junior high, and those who are twenty from those who are twenty-five. There are middle-middle-age groups, late-middle-age groups, and old-age groups - as though people with five years between them could not possibly have anything in common.”
“An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.”

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