"When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency."

-- Arthur Golden

#Fighting Quotes #Kind Quotes #Urgency Quotes

“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
“I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.”
“Comrades ! You have voluntarily accepted a mission that is the noblest that the human mind can conceive of. For the fulfillment of such a mission no sacrifice is too great, not even the sacrifice of one's life. You are today the custodians of India's national honour and the embodiment of India's hopes and aspirations. So conduct yourself that your countrymen may bless you and posterity may be proud of you.”

Source : Subhas Chandra Bose, Netaji Subhas Ashram (Suisa, India), Indian National Army (2004*). “Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and 21st century India: a special number on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose”
“I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.”
“All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they are cutting off part of their possible fullness, their natural realization of life, whether they are rich or poor.”

Source : Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.357, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“America's Older Americans add great value to our Nation.”
“Life is short so go on and live it cause the chicks dig it.”

Source : Song: Chicks Dig It, Album: Chris Cagle, 2003
“People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote.”

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