"Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion"

-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#Cactus Quotes #Starting Quotes

“Your love is from the imagination, not the heart.”

Source : Frances Brooke (1777). “The History of Emily Montague”, p.25
“I care very much about women and their progress. I didnâ€™t go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.”
“I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about”
“In social networks, you gain and bestow status through those you associate with.”
“I'm not that big of a partier. I wasn't concerned about missing out on things in college.”
“Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.”
“When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.”
“Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and ours. The Great Gatsby made manifest precisely what Fitzgeraldâ€™s contemporaries couldnâ€™t bear to see, and thus it is not only the Jazz Age novel par excellence, but also the harbinger of its decline and fall.”

Source : Sarah Churchwell (2013). “Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby”, p.13, Hachette UK

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