"There's a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I'm in the same boat."

-- Brandy Norwood

#Hard Times Quotes #People Quotes #Boat Quotes

“Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which we ignore in the belief that they possess no deeper significance. Yet it is precisely in their being regarded as unimportant that they take on importance. For in them we ritualize and dramatize attitudes which contradict and often embarrass the sacred values which we proclaim through our solemn ceremonies and rituals of nationhood.”
“Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven.”
“The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous.... No poor man was ever made richer or happier by it. It is quite as illogical to despise a man because he is rich as because he is poor. Not what a man has, but what he is, settles his class. We can not right matters by taking from one what he has honestly acquired to bestow upon another what he has not earned.”

Source : Harrison, Benjamin (1901). “Views of an ex-president”, p.336, Best Books on
“Common sense is strengthened by joy.”
“As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene controls the production, function, and specificity of a particular enzyme.”
“Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away.”

Source : "Cheney’s Trouble with the Truth" by Robert Scheer, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 23, 2005.
“Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Alas, the heart hardens as the blood ceases to run. The cold snow strikes down from the head, and checks the glow of feeling. Who wants to survive into old age after abdicating all his faculties one by one, and be sans teeth, sans eyes, sans memory, sans hope, sans sympathy?”
“Amazing, isn't it, that our prayers...can move the very heart of God who created the universe?”

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