"Once you've taken a public stand you know is right, never back down; anything less than a rock-hard stance will let your enemies nibble you to death."

-- L. Neil Smith

#Taken Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“Something that I really enjoy doing is creating and being a part of very different characters and very different projects.”
“John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a promised land in the Western [United States]; the perfidy of banks in foreclosing on poor people's homes; and the insurgent urge of the book's protagonist, Tom Joad, to speak truth to police power. 'Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy,' Tom promises, 'I'll be there.' In Salinas, Calif., Ferguson, Mo., or Staten Island, N.Y., Tom's truth goes marching on.”
“Some people can sometimes really invade your space and kind of never leave you alone.”
“Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.”
“As long as a certain problem primarily affects a different country, in this case Italy, one might not put it at the very top of one's list of priorities.”
“I testify that bad days come to an end, that faith always triumphs, and that heavenly promises are always kept.”
“I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.”

Source : Nikolai Gogol (2011). “Dead Souls: A Novel”, p.378, Vintage
“If I must have an ill, may it be real, That I may meet it eye to eye and fight, And wheresoever it may strength reveal Get after it with all my main and might. The woe that but impends and wears the mind With worry deep and most vexatious care, Is harder fighting than the realler kind, For when you come to strikeâ€”it isn't there!”

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