Quotes
Authors
Christopher Columbus

"The tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with nothing to look forward to but death. Each was certain the others had been destroyed. What man ever born, not excepting Job, who would not have died of despair, when in such weather seeking safety for my son, my brother, shipmates, and myself, we were forbidden [access to] the land and the harbors which I, by God's will and sweating blood, had won for Spain?"

Christopher Columbus

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“I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.”
“The first presidential veto, by George Washington, was a veto of Alexander Hamilton's formula for apportioning the House, and the one that Washington preferred was one that Thomas Jefferson produced, and that was one partisan issue. The apportionment formula that Jefferson produced gave an extra seat to Virginia. Everybody knew what that game was. Look, partisan interest in the census is simply nothing new.”

Source : "Census, Uncensored". Interview with Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. June 26, 2009.
“Courage is not the absence of fear”
“I donâ€™t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because Iâ€™ve never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.”
“That's how you know you really trust someone, I think; when you don't have to talk all the time to make sure they still like you or prove that you have interesting stuff to say.”

Source : Sara Zarr (2008). “Story of a Girl”, p.15, Hachette UK
“There is a difference between knowing what is true and knowing why it is true”
“I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my one and my eleven and nobody else's. For, as between the clock and me alone, one and eleven and all other o'clocks are mine and I am not theirs. But I have known men and women living in hotels who would interrupt a sunset to go to dine, or wave away the stars in their courses to go to sleep, merely because the hour had struck.”

Source : "Friendship Village Love Stories".
“I don't care how talented a team is, unless you believe in one another, you're weak.”

Source : Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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