"On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose your fortune, and to give up your civil honor, all for revolutionary conviction, makes for a league of more practical proof than any religious order."

-- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#Religious Quotes #Children Quotes #Giving Up Quotes

“I play music because I love it and I'll keep playin' till I'm old.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I got the acting bug back because I felt like all of a sudden maybe after all these years, maybe I might have something to offer again. I walked away from it after 'Signs' because I just felt I was a bit stale and it wasn't ringing my bells, so I focused on directing, writing and producing.”
“Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty.”
“What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was Hee Haw, was 360 degrees of entertainment.”
“It's better to decide wrongly than weakly. If you're weak, you're likely to be wrong anyway.”

Source : Bill Parcells (1995). “Finding a Way to Win: The Principles of Leadership, Teamwork, and Motivation”, Doubleday Books
“Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.”
“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”
“Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.”

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