"I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do."

-- Joan Allen

#Rope Quotes #Ends Quotes

“Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.”
“We hear much nowadays as to the speculative ideas of men concerning the condition beyond the grave; but the admission that there is an individual existence beyond the grave, is a declaration that there must have been an individual, intelligent creation before we came here in the flesh. Life beyond the grave postulates a pre-existent state.”
“There is a special mystique about the marathon, for example, because of its length-but that's just the bit you do at the end of an Ironman”
“Oh, the solitariness of sin! There is nothing like it, except, perhaps, the solitariness of death. In that isolation none can reach you, none can feed you.”

Source : Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.365
“A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter.”

Source : Ariana Franklin (2008). “The Serpent's Tale”, p.43, Penguin
“You know, anyone who invites me to do something makes me feel special.”
“Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness.”
“I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.”

Source : "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.

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