"It is true to say that I was nurtured on Bible stories but mostly concerned with sacrifice. If by some mischance I did, or said, anything which my father regarded as improper, he would say: 'Do not grieve the Lord by behaving so.' And if I suggested that I wanted to go somewhere, or meet somebody, he would say: 'It will not please the Lord.'"

-- John George Haigh

#Father Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Grieving Quotes

“And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.”
“The Bhagavad Gitaâ€”that ancient Indian Yogic textâ€”says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody elseâ€™s life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.”
“That's no moon. It's a space station”

Source : "Fictional character: Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi". "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope", www.imdb.com. 1977.
“to love is to risk, not being loved in return. to hope is to risk pain. to try is to risk failure. but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing.”
“Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this.”
“The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the voices of millions of Americans.”
“I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don't see any American dream--I see an American nightmare.”
“Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony.”

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