"We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by."

-- Will Rogers

#Inspirational Quotes #Motivational Quotes #Hero Quotes

“As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.”

Source : Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Stanley Kunitz, Max Hayward (1997). “Избранные Стихи”, p.149, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom and public health.”
“Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?”

Source : Jessica Mitford (1973). “Kind and usual punishment: the prison business”, Not Avail
“BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.”
“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.”
“It sounds blase but there is a certain amount of luck. We'd all like to take a certain amount of credit for Kevin Doyle... But I can't really remember what it was I particularly liked about Kevin when I watched him in Ireland. I had five pints of Guinness in the afternoon and it was all a bit blurred.”

Source : "The quiet man". Interview with Amy Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2007.
“Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.”
“I think we go well together. I like being with you because I'm never bored. Even when we're not talking, even when we're not touching, even when we're not in the same room, I'm not bored. I'm never bored. I think it's because I have confidence in you, in your thoughts. Do you understand? I love everything I see in you, and everything I don't see. I know your faults, but as it turns out, I feel as though your faults go well with my qualities. We're not afraid of the same things. Even our inner demons go well together! You, you're worth more than you show...”

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