"Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them."

-- George Eliot

#Determination Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Scales Quotes

“Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.”
“[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.”
“The true religion, it is said, is service to mankind; but this service seems to take the form of securing for him an unconditional victory over nature. Now this attitude is impious, for, as has been noted, it violates the belief that creation or nature is fundamentally good, that the ultimate reason for its laws is a mystery, and that acts of defiance such as are daily celebrated by the newspapers are subversive of cosmos.”
“The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives.”

Source : John Taylor Gatto (2000). “A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling”
“Hillary Clinton really transformed herself into a national security expert. She decided to join the Senate Armed Services Committee, and she became a real military wonk. She was famous for going to every subcommittee hearing and methodically questioning every lieutenant colonel from the Pentagon about defense procurement or selective service benefits. So that's where she really began to carve out and hone this reputation as a hawk that I think has followed her through the secretary of state years and then into the presidential campaign.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Acting's fun, but life's more important”

Source : "No kidding" by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.
“Excuse me while I go bleach my face.”

Source : Elle Casey (2012). “Apocalypsis: Book 1 (Kahayatle)”, p.104, Elle Casey
“In Hollywood, I'm lucky, I only do big movies like 'Blade.' It's much more comfortable: you have a trailer.”

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