"Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use."

-- Ruth Gordon

#Inspirational Quotes #Women Quotes #Use Quotes

“Freedom only for supporters of the government, only for the members of one party - however numerous they may be - is no freedom at all. Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. Not because of any fanatical concept of 'justice' but because all that is instructive, wholesome and purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic, and its effectiveness vanishes when 'freedom' becomes a special privilege.”

Source : Rosa Luxemburg (1961). “The Russian Revolution, and Leninism Or Marxism?”, p.69, University of Michigan Press
“Immigrants who come to a country are going to lose something, for sure, but they hope to gain a great deal by making this journey, whereas refugees by definition have lost a tremendous amount - not just country and society, but also more personal things like careers, prestige, status, relatives, identities. This inevitably makes the longing to remember the past even more powerful among refugees, to the point of often debilitating them.”
“I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.”
“Naked acrobatics are on my resume”

Source : "Zac Efron, co-stars talk 'naked acrobatics,' have 'awkward moment' on TODAY". Interview with Ree Hines, www.today.com. January 21, 2014.
“Just close your eyes and enjoy the rollercoaster that is life :)”
“Sometimes I come here just to be a lost mariner but I am never lost: there are the snowflakes frozen to the porthole of a jewelry store, here is the treasure chest open to a single pearl laid on a velvet slab, there is the plashing of faces in the aisles and the row of lockers stuffed with the coats and hats of the drowned and it is night, and the moon rows over the gentle waters of the parking lot.”

Source : Nancy Eimers (2006). “A Grammar to Waking: Poems”, Carnegie-Mellon University Press
“I know how hard it will be to follow the best manager ever, but the opportunity to manage Manchester United isn't something that comes around very often and I'm really looking forward to taking up the post next season.”

Source : "David Moyes has six years to make his mark at Manchester United" by Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2013.
“I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.”

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