"Margaret had always dreaded lest her courage should fail her in any emergency, and she should be proved to be, what she dreaded lest she was--a coward. But now, in this real great time of reasonable fear and nearness of terror, she forgot herself, and felt only an intense sympathy--intense to painfulness--in the interests of the moment."

-- Elizabeth Gaskell

#Real Quotes #Coward Quotes #Emergencies Quotes

“Someday our souls will be one and our union will be forever. I know that everything I give you comes back to me. So I give you my life , hoping that you will come back to me.”
“When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.”
“I just want to get on stage and sing and be happy.”

Source : "Ronnie's spectre". Interview With Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2006.
“The future of Africa lies not with external actors but within Africa itself. The future of Africa lies here in Africa.”
“It is essential that we raise the image of sex, which is currently seen as a purely biological affair and often portrayed in its worst manifestations, to that of a spiritually based activity.”

Source : Stanislav Grof (1998). “The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness”, p.154, SUNY Press
“We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.”
“Submit to Islam and be safe. Or agree to the payment of the Jizya (tax), and you and your people will be under our protection, else you will have only yourself to blame for the consequences, for I bring the men who desire death as ardently as you desire life.”

Source : Khalid ibn al-Walid's letter to the Persian monarch Emperor Yazdegerd III, as quoted in John Clark Ridpath "History of the World, Volume IV (Book XII: The Mohammedan Ascendency, p. 463), 1910.
“Better authentic mammon than a bogus god.”

Source : 'Autumn Journal' (1939) p. 49

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