"I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job."

-- Douglas Leone

#Summer Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Teenager Quotes

“If those friends who blame...could see what we see, and feel what we feel, they would be the first to wonder that those redeemed by Christ should be so backward in devotion, and know so little of the spirit of self-sacrifice. They would be ashamed of the hesitations that hinder us. But we must remember that it was not by interceding for the world in glory that Jesus saved it. He gave Himself. Our prayers for the evangelization of the world are but a bitter irony as we only give of our superfluity and draw back before the sacrifice of ourselves.”
“I started out playing in clubs. I always like existing under ground and over ground at the same time.”
“Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?”
“Living a life of service to others is the most powerful sermon of all, don't you think?”
“However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be unable to remain in standing position for the duration of the story.”
“It is like when you go to war: we have to know how our enemies attack and defend.”
“Richard Dawkins is arguably England's most pious atheist.”

Source : Simon Conway Morris (2003). “Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe”, p.315, Cambridge University Press
“Being critical of the nation is a far cry from being unpatriotic or anti-American. In fact, most social criticism . . . is based on a love of America's ideals and a concern we're not living up to them.”

Source : Robert B. Reich (2004). “Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America”, p.114, Vintage

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