"These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business as usual.' But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story. Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening."

-- Yann Martel

#Children Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“We will never be the women God wants us to be if our hearts are continually chasing after human approval.”

Source : Kylie Bisutti (2013). “I'm No Angel: From Victoria's Secret Model to Role Model”, p.253, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.”
“By looking the other way on climate change we facilitate a collective denial, and we do it for each other.”
“When you have a big heart and big stuff, anything is possible.”
“Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.”

Source : Kenneth B. Clark (1989). “Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power”, p.128, Wesleyan University Press
“We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author.”
“The first rule of baseball is to get a good ball to hit.”
“Essentially Rumsfeld wins, Cheney wins, and the CIA and State Department lose. Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld have more centralized control over intelligence, analysis, and operations than ever before. And the way they interpret the law, if the President authorizes an intelligence mission to be run covertly by the Pentagon, they don't have to tell anybody, including Congress, about it because the President is the commander in chief.”

Source : Source: www.progressive.org

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