"I think I understand that religious faith which makes the holy brave and strong; my strength is just somewhere else--it's in myself...I do not fear what may await me, though I'm equally confident that nothing awaits."

-- Jon Krakauer

#Religious Quotes #Strong Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably.”

Source : Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton
“Let me come in when you are weeping, friend, and let me take your hand. I, who have known a sorrow such as yours, can understand.”

Source : Grace Noll Crowell, “To One In Sorrow”
“Because one has the animal instinct to seek out the people that suits one - you see people that go on life's journeys and get muddled along the way. If you look at their lives they've always gone with the wrong people... can you say it's the wrong people - I don't know...”
“I want people to FEEL something... If it's sadness, anger, horny, happiness whatever! As long as it doesn't just pass you by.”
“We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.”
“With music, you could stick someone with a musical instrument or even not a musical instrument, get them to showcase their talent, and within 30 seconds you could tell whether they were good or not, but with acting you have to give them the right part.”
“When I was 12, I first made the decision to go vegetarian after a co-star's line 'I don't eat anything with a face' suddenly shocked me into reality.”
“Deplorable practices adopted during the last century were repeatedly declared necessary if regrettable in order to win the war. Oddly enough, we've yet to win. You'd think somebody would have asked before this why the regrettable but necessary measures haven't actually produced the promised results.”

Source : Jack Campbell (2007). “The Lost Fleet: Courageous”, p.73, Penguin

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