"Life can dictate that we suffer physical restrictions and limitations, but no one has the ability to restrict or in any way demean our spirit unless we agree to it."

-- Sonia Choquette

#Suffering Quotes #Way Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“Violent revolutions usually only mean a change of personnel at the top.”

Source : Petra Karin Kelly (1984). “Fighting for Hope”, p.31, South End Press
“Characters to me are like sonnets, they have limits that you obey which allow a force to enter in, an invention that makes the novel possible. Change the limits and the force leaves. The novel becomes impossible.”

Source : "Go Forth (Vol. 41)". Interview with Kristen Evans, logger.believermag.com. February 26, 2016.
“My habit of attacking Huns dangling from their parachutes led to many arguments in the mess. Some officers, of the Eton and Sandhurst type, thought it was 'unsportsmanlike' to do it. Never having been to a public school, I was unhampered by such considerations of form. I just pointed out that there was a bloody war on, and that I intended to avenge my pals.”
“In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.”
“Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.”
“I had the good fortune and opportunity to come home and to tell the truth; many soldiers, like Pat Tillmanâ€¦ did not have that opportunity. The truth of war is not always easy. The truth is always more heroic than the hype.”

Source : Opening Statement Before House Oversight & Govt. Reform Committee, delivered 24 April 2007
“I wanted to be an actor, an astrologer, an astronaut; a lot of different things were going through my mind. But I also wanted to play guitar. I mentioned to my parents that I wanted an electric guitar for Christmas. They got me one! I sat there all Christmas morning making a lot of loud horrible noise.”
“I don't want any man to have control over me.”

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