"Be heroes in an army of construction."

-- Helen Keller

#Hero Quotes #Army Quotes #Construction Quotes

“I used to eat burgers and steak, and I would just be knocked out afterward; I had to give it up.”
“There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the people who want censorship. But this would deny those of us who don't believe in censorship the use of the only counter-balance: the freedom of the press to say that there's anything conceivably damaging in these films - the freedom to analyze their implications. ... How can people go on talking about the dazzling brilliance of movies and not notice that the directors are sucking up to the thugs in the audience?”
“The stairs aren't challenging enough anymore?" he asked. Antonio laughed. "Challenge has nothing to do with it, Jer. I'd say it's the big bad wolf huffing and puffing at her door up there.”
“The spirit of rebellion must live in Serbia. Only then will we know we are alive and not servants of a dictator.”
“The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesnt discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.”
“Digestion is quickly shut down during stressâ€¦The parasympathetic nervous system, perfect for all that calm, vegetative physiology, normally mediates the actions of digestion. Along comes stress: turn off parasympathetic, turn on the sympathetic, and forget about digestion.”

Source : "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping - Now Revised and Updated".
“We as women put ourselves in this situation of feeling like we canâ€™t take a risk, like in order to step out there we have to be perfect, because weâ€™re scared that if we donâ€™t say the right thing, or do the right thing, that weâ€™ll reflect poorly on ourselves and our community, whether that community be women, people of color, both.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kerry Washington from Jun 17, 2014
“I was playing catch with the European audience.”

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