"It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy."

-- Peter Coyote

#Home Quotes #America Quotes #Anxiety Quotes

“I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?”

Source : Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.74, Simon and Schuster
“You have to have a habitual vision of greatness ... you have to believe in fact that you will refuse to settle for mediocrity. You won't confuse your financial security with your personal integrity, you won't confuse your success with your greatness or your prosperity with your magnanimity ... believe in fact that living is connected to giving.”
“I'm trying to mediate between individual agency and structural determination. I accept that people make individual choices, quite thoughtful, quite careful, quite difficult choices, but they don't make them without constraints that shape what choices are possible and provide the intensity of the push toward choosing.”
“One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them.”
“My mother is a good woman - a very good woman - and I am, I think, not quite all criminality, but we do not pull together. I am a piece of machinery which, not understanding, my mother winds up the wrong way, setting all the wheels of my composition going in creaking discord.”

Source : Miles Franklin (2009). “My Brilliant Career”, p.63, The Floating Press
“The information superhighway showed the average person what some nerd thinks about Star Trek.”
“Whenever I'm feeling kind of down or something like that, or even good, the song 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen is a go-to song of mine. It's like watching a movie, but with your ears.”

Source : "‘American Idol’s’ Casey Abrams on hanging with Scotty McCreery and his best buddy". Interview with Melinda Newman, uproxx.com. June 21, 2012.
“It is thyself, mine own self's better part; Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart; My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's aim, My sole earth's heaven, and my heaven's claim.”

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