"No hardy perennial has the enduring quality of hope. Cut it to the roots, stamp it underfoot, let frost and fire work their will, and still some valiant shoot will push, to grow again on such scanty fare as it can find. Only time and the cruel quicklime of fact can destroy that stubborn urgency."

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Source : Rachel Field (1946). “And Now Tomorrow”

Rachel Field

#Hope Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Roots Quotes

“I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States.”
“The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.”

Source : "Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's Take On The Economy". "60 Minutes" with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. December 3, 2010.
“I would much rather be hated for who I am, then loved for something that I am not.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Creative people inspire me. Athletes also inspire me to come alive, especially my daughter, a competitive gymnast who works very hard, as much as six hours a day on her gymnastics skills.”

Source : "Daft Punk Bassist Nathan East: Music is His Mission". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.
“Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.”
“I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.”
“Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy!”
“I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintainence of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind. It requires a willingness to put up with temporary evils on the basis of the subtle and sophisticated understanding that if you step in to do something about them you not only may make them worse, you will spread your tenticles and get bad results elsewhere.”

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