"As I entered this world, I would leave behind the nurturing of my family and my home, but in another sense I would take their protection with me. The lessons I had learned, the feelings of groundedness and belonging that have been woven into my character there, would be my companions on the journey."

-- Sidney Poitier

#Character Quotes #Home Quotes #Journey Quotes

“Freedom is a responsibility to be earned, not a license for recklessness and anarchy. If someday, despite our strongest efforts and our deepest determination, we finally fall, let it be because our enemies finally beat us, not because we beat ourselves.”

Source : Dan Wells (2012). “Partials (Partials, Book 1)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK
“I wouldn't be interested in just doing a show that's mapped out and choreographed with a set list. That would've been boring so long ago it just wouldn't be any fun.”
“Tormented by conflicting feelings, I appealed to reason ; and it is reason which, amid so many dogmatic contradictions, now forces the hypothesis upon me. A priori dogmatism, applying itself to God, has proved fruitless: who knows whither the hypothesis, in its turn, will lead us? I will explain therefore how, studying in the silence of my heart, and far from every human consideration, the mystery of social revolutions, God, the great unknown, has become for me an hypothesis, I mean a necessary dialectical tool.”
“My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.”
“There is no reason not to support energy exploration in ANWR.”
“I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.”

Source : "Lena Horne obituary" by John Fordham, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2010.
“Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.”
“Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.”

Source : Plotinus (1952). “The Six Enneads”, p.48, Hayes Barton Press

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