"There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing."

-- J. G. Holland

#Patience Quotes #Patient Quotes #Godlike Quotes

“I can never acknowledge the right of slavery. I will bow down to no deity however worshipped by professing Christians - however dignified by the name of the Goddess of Liberty, whose footstool is the crushed necks of the groaning millions, and who rejoices in the resoundings of the tyrant's lash, and the cries of his tortured victims.”

Source : "Shapers of the Great Debate on the Civil War: A Biographical Dictionary". Book by Dan Monroe and Bruce Tap, p. 255, 2005.
“I think my love is storytelling. No matter what it is, it's storytelling. And so whatever the medium is, what's right for the story, I enjoy doing it.”
“I want to make sense of things, to understand the world, but my work is never really instructional. I have no wisdom to impart or give, so I think my dream readers would be people who just use the book as an excuse to get into their own cycle of thoughts. The book is just like a map. It's just a jotting-down of things that you can interpret in your own ways.”
“Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions... and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.”

Source : Saul Williams (2012). “She”, p.84, Simon and Schuster
“I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.”
“I couldn't help but see; I wasn't blind. I couldn't help but admire; I wasn't dead”

Source : Lori Handeland (2014). “Rising Moon”, p.29, Lori Handeland
“In the office, Michael sat behind our fatherâ€™s desk, clicking away at the computer with his right hand, and making notes with his left. Ambidextrous freak.”
“Being angry and resentful of someone is like letting them live rent-free in your head.”

Source : George Foreman (2003). “George Foreman's Guide to Life: How to Get Up Off the Canvas When Life Knocks You Down”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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