"I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop."

-- Lois McMaster Bujold

#Momentum Quotes #Virtue Quotes #Dare Quotes

“Well, I enjoy sharing in the dangers that we ask our men and women in uniform to share in almost every day.”

Source : "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "CNN Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.
“I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.”

Source : "This much I know" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.
“History at its best is vicarious experience.”
“I waited for dawn, but only because I had forgotten how hard mornings were. For a second I'd be normal. Then came the dim awareness of something off, out of place. Then the truth came crashing down and that was it for the rest of the day. Sunlight was reproof. Shouldn't I feel better than I had in the dead of night.”
“I always have those feelings - lucky and blessed - and I don't know if they'll ever go away. I really hope they don't, as I think it keeps you grounded. That's how I feel about every film I do.”
“A life is not meant to be half lived. It is meant to be fully, wholly embraced. If you want to make a change in the world you have to be strong. You have to take chances. You have to persevere. Sometimes you must blindly go in a direction that you may be unsure of, but one that you have faith will lead you to the right place.”
“If I was feeling angry, I had to investigate not just who or what I was angry at, but why. And then I had to do the hard part and ask myself: Are you justified in where your anger is being directed? So, while I allowed my emotions to be valid, I knew that if I were to use them constructively, in the service of art, then I had to look at them dispassionately. Some might call this therapy, and I suppose it was. But I also had a goal that was larger than just healing myself, which was connecting to an audience.”
“Your so bitter, like kitty litter.”

Source : Song: Mortal Combat, Album: It's a Big Daddy Thing

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