"On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites."

-- Barack Obama

#Mother Quotes #New Year Quotes #Easter Quotes

“I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”
“A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue.”

Source : Sol Stein (2014). “Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies”, p.113, St. Martin's Press
“2004 has to be my year. No more excuses.”
“The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room.”
“Keep it simple. Let's do the obvious thing -the common thing- but let's do it uncommonly well.”
“When my pop career was over, I was scratching my head, thinking, "God, how am I going to do something after I'm forty?" I was in my mid-thirties, thinking I was on the scrap heap.”
“I never liked sleeping; I always think I am missing something.”

Source : "Costa's Calvin Klein". Interview with Sarah Bailey, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 22, 2008.
“An individual gospel without a social gospel is a soul without a body and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is a ghost, the other a corpse.”

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