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“I wasn't good enough for abnegation," I say, "and I wanted to be free. So I chose Dauntless." "Why weren't you good enough?" "Because I was selfish." I say. "You were selfish? You aren't anymore?" "Of course I am. My mother said that everyone is selfish," I say, "but I became less selfish in Dauntless. I discovered there were people I would fight for. Die for, even.”
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“'Truly, truly, I tell you, if you ask anything of the Father in My Name, He will give it to you. Till now you have asked nothing in My Name; ask and you will receive, that your joy may be full' (Jn. 16:23). What a wonderful gift! It is a guarantee of unending, infinite blessings! It came from the lips of the unlimited God, clothed in limited humanity and called by the human name of Savior. The name by its exterior form is limited, but it represents an unlimited object, God, from Whom it borrows infinite, divine value or worth, the power and properties of God.”
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“Whiskey will always be a part of my life.”
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“Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.”
Source : William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1913). “Political speeches. Speeches on foreign lands. Educational and religiouus speeches. Miscellaneous speeches”
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“Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.”
Source : Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.145, Simon and Schuster
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“We have received a dog with serious eye problems and a skin disease in hopeless stage. The person who brought it here demanded we cure it for free and refused the idea of euthanasia to end its pain.”
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“We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.”
Source : William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.15, Ludwig von Mises Institute
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“We can use laws to prosecute and make people think twice before going to do something like blowing up Buddhas and other things.”
Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk