"Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniencys and Comforts of Life, when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to be rejected not with Reluctance but with Pleasure."

-- George Mason

#Competition Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.”

Source : K. J. Parker (2009). “Devices And Desires: The Engineer Trilogy: Book One”, p.219, Hachette UK
“At the same time, we can't blame comedians for taking time to learn. Any critic of comedy who believes that he has always, universally, been on the right side of justice is engaging in a hypocrisy that is itself a joke.”
“Basic services such as electricity have never been worse and the economy of Arab Iraq is in ruins.”

Source : "Little chance country's nightmare will end soon". www.standard.co.uk. February 14, 2005.
“Cast off the burden of sin and you will find within you the upward path that will make your ascent possible.”
“You never increase in anything you resent.”
“I'm thinking balls are to men, what purses are to women. It's just a little bag but we'd feel naked in public without it.”

Source : "Fictional character: Carrie Bradshaw". "Sex and the City" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 1998-2004.
“Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.”

Source : Kwame Nkrumah (1968). “Dark days in Ghana”, Lawrence & Wishart
“I do what I'm coached to do. That's part of being a team leader and captain. The job will change week in and week out, and it's not for you to question what your job is - it's to go out there and execute your assignments.”

Source : "Cardinals' Larry Fitzgerald talks playoff hopes, trade rumors, more in Q&A". Interview with Tom Pelissero, www.usatoday.com. July 10, 2014.

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