"We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society"

-- Hal Holbrook

#Opportunity Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.”
“What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday...he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same. He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place, and he was in the habit of hoping for it.”
“The Christian who drinks cannot win his drinking companions to Christ. The girl who dances will never win her dancing boyfriend! You may think to gain favor and influence with the unsaved by joining with them in the lodge, or attending with them the movies, or by smoking or drinking or playing bridge with them, but you cannot! Worldliness means powerlessness! And that means that every Christian who sells out is guilty of the murder of the poor lost souls that go to Hell because he lost his influence.”
“A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.”
“Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.”

Source : Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, Crown Pub
“If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came.”
“You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works.”
“[On a dull party:] It was a fÃªte worse than death.”

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