"Before every game he played Willie Ofahengaue would pray. But it to us it was never clear whether he prayed for himself or for the safety of the opposition!"

-- Peter FitzSimons

#Games Quotes #Safety Quotes #Praying Quotes

“Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.”
“Work is as much a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing that can be called work still imagine they are doing something. The world has not a man who is an idler in his own eyes.”
“If Jesus is Lord then the only right response to him is surrender and obedience. He is Savior and he is Lord. We cannot separate his demands from his love. We cannot dissect Jesus and relate only to the parts that we like or need. Christ died so that we could be forgiven for managing our own lives. It would be impossible to thank Christ for dying and yet to continue running our own lives.”
“I want kids to know that it is okay to make a change in order to feel better about themselves.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.”
“Being in a group is a way to actually to speak up, and define yourself in the comfort, and the complexity of the group.”
“She was mother not only to me but to the whole nation. She served the Indian people to the last drop of her blood.”

Source : Rajiv Gandhi (1987). “Selected speeches and writings”
“It doesn't matter what race you are. It doesn't matter what religion you are. I always tell people: If you want to be a part of hip-hop, you just need to have a heart. You need to have the courage to tell the truth.”

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