"When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive."

-- David Gemmell

#War Quotes #Years Quotes #Handy Quotes

“Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.”
“When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.”

Source : FaceBook post by Edwidge Danticat from Jul 12, 2011
“Reports by Politico, Bloomberg and other news outlets have raised inconsistencies in Melania Trump's immigration story.”

Source : "Inconsistencies Call Melania Trump's Immigration Story Into Question". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. August 5, 2016.
“Of course, you always give 100 percent, but at a home race you're always more motivated, simply because you feel at home.”
“I don't take gifts from perfect strangers â€” but then, nobody is perfect.”
“When we believe that we ought to be satisfied, rather than God glorified, we set God below ourselves, imagine that He should submit His own honor to our advantage; we make ourselves more glorious than God, as though we were not made for Him, but He made for us; this is to have a very low esteem of the majesty of God.”
“STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.”
“It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”

Source : "Invictus" l. 13 (1888)

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