"She had not wanted him to but had let him have his way because ever since she was a child she had generally yielded before anyone with strong willpower, especially if it was a man, not because she was naturally submissive, but because strong male willpower gave her a feeling of safety and trust, together with acceptance and a desire to give in."

-- Amos Oz

#Strong Quotes #Children Quotes #Acceptance Quotes

“The murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing hundreds of thousands of other people from defending themselves against meeting the same fate.”
“Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.”

Source : "The Windup Girl". Book by Paolo Bacigalupi, 2009.
“I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.”
“You're laughing at everything that's bringing me down.”

Source : Song: I Almost Forgot, Album: 100% Fun
“Oh, to realize that souls, precious, never dying souls, are perishing all around us, going out into the blackness of darkness and despair, eternally lost, and yet to feel no anguish, shed no tears, know no travail! How little we know of the compassion of Jesus!”
“Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.”

Source : Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
“I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have just really enjoyed the journey of getting to know my voice and seeing what it's capable of, what it's not capable of.”
“If marriage can be redefined so that it no longer means a man and a woman but two men or two women, why stop there? Why not allow three men or a woman and two men to constitute a marriage?”

Source : "Catholic leader calls government's gay marriage plans 'madness'". www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2012.

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