"It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me."

-- Isabel Wilkerson

#Matter Quotes #Geography Quotes #Save Me Quotes

“I'm hoping that we're not getting to Second Amendment remedies. I hope the vote will be the cure for the Harry Reid problems.”

Source : "The Rachel Maddow Show" with Rachel Maddow, www.nbcnews.com. June 17, 2010.
“Maybe in the back of my mind I was kind of wishing that I would become a rock star, kind of wishing that I would reach enough people who would be willing to pay me for the music, that I would actually be able to live off of just writing the songs that I wanted to write. But I don't think I really admitted to myself that that was my goal.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“The failure of the family court system in America is a national scandal. Sadly, the mainstream media, whether out of ignorance or fear, refuses to cover it. That media silence means that every day, these American human rights abuses continue to occur.”
“The best teams I've had had a little bit of swagger.”
“Culture arises only when the individual fulfills his cycle of obligations. If everyone recognizes and fulfills his cycle of obligations, genuineness emerges. The culture of a whole nation can in the final analysis be built upon nothing else.”

Source : Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, Northwestern Univ Pr
“Hence the importance of patience in the New Testament, which becomes the basic constituent of Christianity, more central even than humility: the power to wait, to persevere, to hold out, to endure to the end, not to transcend one's own limitations, not to force issues by playing the hero or the titan, but to practice the virtue that lies beyond heroism, the meekness of the Lamb which is led.”
“Lying on the front passenger seat, as if it didn't matter, was Rose's Diary. It Mattered.”

Source : Caroline B. Cooney (2012). “Fatality”, p.3, Open Road Media
“We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.”

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