"Let us be brave in the face of adversity."

-- Seneca the Elder

#Adversity Quotes #Brave Quotes #Faces Quotes

“Definitely. More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from. There is line in a song by Georges Brassens [French singer-songwriter]: 'Les imbciles heureux qui sont ns quelquepart.' I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction.”
“I think these are the most difficult games to win, just every at-bat, every pitch, it seemed like it was important. The at-bats that the Nationals had the entire series, it just felt like it was a constant 2-2, foul off three pitches, seven-pitch at-bats.”

Source : Source: m.mlb.com
“Happiness and depression cannot blossom on the same vine. Some people affirm their woes and beg for sympathy. Others, unfortunately, cast gloom wherever they go. These poor souls were born sick and tired.”
“The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.”
“Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union... A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union, as now constituted, would now be certainly necessary... The Union might then be reorganized on the fundamental principle of emancipation.”
“Our job is to instigate, and by the grace of God, we did that, and certain people responded to this instigation.”
“I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.”
“The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.”

Source : Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (2005). “The rule of four”, Egully.com

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