"Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden"

--

S. E. Hinton

#Hero Quotes #Turns Quotes

“It is then, we say, in the successive stages of his experience, that the believer sees more distinctly, and adores more profoundly, and grasps more firmly, the finished righteousness of Christ. And what is the school in which he learns his nothingness, his poverty, his utter destitution? The school of deep and sanctified affliction. In no other school is it learned, and under no other teacher but God. Here his high thoughts are brought low, and the Lord alone is exalted.”
“I wish you to be persuaded that success in your art depends almost entirely on your own industry; but the industry which I principally recommend is not the industry of the hands, but of the mind.”
“Rochelle," she calls out, still looking at me. "Is there anyone down at the desk? I need something." I'm too startled to move. Is she going to tell on me, get me in trouble? Rochelle's gotten up; she's banging the toilet stall doors open one by one, checking to make sure no one's in there. When the last stall turns up empty, she gives Amanda an annoyed look. "What do you need this time of night?" Amanda smiles at me, then turns to face Rochelle. "A tampon”

Source : Patricia McCormick (2000). “Cut”, Front Street Incorporated
“Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you'll call me.”

Source : Sam Donaldson (1988). “Hold On, Mr. President”, Fawcett Books
“When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.”
“Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude”
“You see my tears, in the rain underneath it all, we're just the same.”
“No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.”

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