"While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure."

-- Bryant H. McGill

#Disappointment Quotes #Father Quotes #People Quotes

“What do you think would happen if we kissed right here, right now?" he asks, digging his hands into the pockets of his khaki pants, grinning right back at me. "I think it would cause a riot." "Well, you know me," he says, lowering his head towards me. "Causing a riot is what I do best." Santangelo approaches before Griggs gets any closer and pulls him away. "Are you guys insane?" he says, irritated. "It's called peaceful coexistence, Santangelo. You should try it and if it works we may sell the idea to the Israelis and Palestinians," I say, throwing his own words back at him.”
“A considerable breakdown in my health has scared me from the anxieties, responsibilities and excitement of my profession; whether temporarily or permanently cannot yet be determined but, whatever may be the issue, be assured that nothing was better calculated to soothe me than the kind interest manifested by the pupils of Guy's Hospital during the many trying years devoted to that institution.”
“Better to die standing, than to live on your knees.”
“You are a sinner married to a sinner...and the happiest marriage is the union of two forgivers.”
“When you win, we win; but when you go down, you go down alone.”

Source : Luis J. Rodriguez (2005). “Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.”, p.159, Simon and Schuster
“If something is built to show, it's build to grow.”
“Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.”
“The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.”

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