"Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare."

-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Writing Quotes #Giving Quotes #Wake Up Quotes

“Nothing can take your joy; you have to give it away. You're in complete control of your happiness.”
“Surveys show that the #1 fear of Americans is public speaking. #2 is death. That means that at a funeral, the average American would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy.”
“There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.”
“You never know what the American public is going to do, but you know that they will do it all at once.”
“The atheist does not say 'there is no God,' but he says 'I know not what you mean by God; I am without idea of God'; the word 'God' is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation. ... The Bible God I deny; the Christian God I disbelieve in; but I am not rash enough to say there is no God as long as you tell me you are unprepared to define God to me.”
“So I'd rather have a defense that's successful where everyone's comfortable in their positions.”
“As your act of dedication in this world you must finally surrender your own life to a life of service.”

Source : Reshad Feild (1996). “The Last Barrier: A Universal Search for Self Discovery”, Element Books Limited
“I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.”

Source : Ulysses S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.725, Modern Library

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