"In the face of adversity, you find out if you're a fighter or a quitter. It's all about getting up after you've been knocked down."

-- Archie Griffin

#Adversity Quotes #Faces Quotes #Fighter Quotes

“Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good.”
“By some estimates, income and wealth inequality are near their highest levels in the past hundred years, much higher than the average during that time span and probably higher than for much of American history before then.”

Source : Janet Yellen's Speech At the Conference on Economic Opportunity and Inequality at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in Boston, Massachusetts, www.federalreserve.gov. October 17, 2014.
“He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.”
“They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.”
“Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.”
“I was brought up with the sense that I was absolutely no different from my brothers. I went to college thinking I was absolutely no different from the men in college. But that's not true. I'm fundamentally different. The problem was not being able to understand difference and equality at the same time. It's something that we can't seem to comprehend. You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality. It's a mistake.”
“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”

Source : Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field Vol. VII: The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.
“I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.”

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