"Let us be adventurers for another world. It is at least a fair and noble chance; and there is nothing in this worth our thoughts or our passions. If we should be disappointed, we are still no worse than the rest of our fellow-mortals; and if we succeed in our expectations we are eternally happy."

-- Gilbert Burnet

#Passion Quotes #Expectations Quotes #Succeed Quotes

“My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with.”
“I love flowy hippie dresses.”
“War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.”
“One of the first things we did was to find role models or mentors at companies that had achieved what we wanted to do. We bribed them or annoyed them for long enough until they decided to mentor us.”
“I don't think there's a petty system of heaven and hell. The love of God is much more forgiving. I'm not a believer in a wrathful God at all.”
“While sexism hurts women most intimately, it also damages men severely.”

Source : "Fierce, Funny, Feminists: Gloria Steinem and Kathleen Hanna". Interview with Celina Hex, www.feministezine.com.
“I was raised a Catholic as a boy and went to a Catholic boys' high school, a private school, and kind of drifted away, candidly, in my latter teen years. I consider myself deeply spiritual but not in an institutional, religious kind of a way. In Catholicism, we're surrounded by these images of martyrdom and doing penance and doing some suffering to achieve what you're trying to achieve. And I certainly embedded that in my psyche and I have lived that very effectively.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“If I were Achilles I would put my foot in a f**k off block of concrete!”

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