"The word of God steadies me. He says your trials and tribulations make you who you are. So you can see my whole story in the way I endured and overcame some testing experiences."

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Source : "'Mama's whippings meant I didn't wind up like Tyson'". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2008.

Evander Holyfield

#Stories Quotes #Trials Quotes #Way Quotes

“In the factory we make cosmetics. In the store we sell hope.”

Source : In A. Tobias Fire and Ice (1976) ch. 8
“It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye.”

Source : "The Life and Masterworks of J.M.W. Turner". Book by Eric Shanes, p. 23, 2012.
“I think the attractiveness of Buddhism is that it doesn't involve a belief in God. That appeals to a lot of people - intellectuals and well-educated people in particular.”
“Any car which holds together for a whole race is too heavy.”
“Poetry is one of the most fugitive arts: it can be assigned to memory, taken and hidden in the mind, smuggled into smoky cabin back rooms, recited there and then conveyed only by speech to another person. It is therefore the most likely to survive colonization.”

Source : Eavan Boland (2008). “Eavan Boland: A Critical Companion : Poetry, Prose, Interviews, Reviews and Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated
“I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.”
“If you paint from 35mm Kodachrome, you end up with a 4x5 foot Kodachrome!”
“Any attempt to dismiss a phenomenon that is not understood merely by explaining it as hallucination becomes irrelevant when a coherent scientific theory can be applied.”

Source : Amit Goswami (1995). “The Self-Aware Universe”, p.136, Penguin

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