"The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation."

-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#Heart Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Care Quotes

“The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.”

Source : Susan Griffin (2015). “A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War”, p.137, Open Road Media
“If some day they take the radio station away from us, if they close down our newspaper, if they donâ€™t let us speak, if they kill all the priests and the bishop too, and you are left, a people without priests, each one of you must be Godâ€™s microphone, each one of you must be a messenger, a prophet. The church will always exist as long as there is one baptized person. And that one baptized person who is left in the world is responsible before the world for holding aloft the banner of the Lordâ€™s truth and of his divine justice.”
“Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.”

Source : "Daschle On Tax Cheats: IRS Should Enforce Laws". Congressional Record, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 7, 1998.
“Nothing can burst your fatherly bubble faster than hearing your daughter come home from a date and saying: 'Some nights I don't know why I even bother to wear panties'.”
“I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.”

Source : "I Am Woman" (song) (1971)
“In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.”
“With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.”
“I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.”

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