"And the word is capitalism. We are too mealy-mouthed. We fear the word capitalism is unpopular. So we talk about the free enterprise system and run to cover in the folds of the flag and talk about the American Way of Life."

-- Eric Johnston

#Running Quotes #Flags Quotes #Way Quotes

“Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross”
“Your body is a jewel box.....the jewel is your soul”
“As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, the pain (of life) will return again and again.”

Source : Max Muller (2013). “Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha”, p.164, Lulu Press, Inc
“When we don't preach the LORD, we preach the Devil, and when we preach worldliness, we preach the Devil”
“I'd been around women who put me down, made me feel bad, or said things to fuel my insecurity.”
“Losing people makes you realize you've got to grab life - not put things off.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.”

Source : Song: I Hope You Dance, Album: I Hope You Dance
“Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them.”

Source : Maria Monk (1851). “The Character of a Convent: Displayed in the Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk ; Being a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice and Two Years as a Black Nun in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal ; to which is Added Confirmatory Notes and Affidavits Whereby Maria Monk's Disclosures are Most Fully Proved, and the Hideous Nature of the Conventual System are Exposed”, p.26

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