"We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart."

-- Rebecca Harding Davis

#Struggle Quotes #Eye Quotes #Heart Quotes

“Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people.”
“I run in Central Park, I love that place. That's the beauty of running, I had my jacket, my tight and my gloves - my gloves never leave my backpack. Just in case.”

Source : Source: brooklynactivemama.com
“We post photos of the Halloween costumes and the mustaches made of cupcake frosting. We don't record the tantrums?and that's as it should be. But we shouldn't mistake that for reality. It's stagecraft.”
“How can such a disproportionately large number of people have a definite, and unusually positive relationship to Mozart?”
“I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.”
“Any Organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is "flat" and in which all members are equal.”

Source : Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (1998). “Social Mobility”, p.12, Taylor & Francis
“I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse.”
“It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.”

Source : Randall Jarrell, Mary Jarrell (1985). “Randall Jarrell's letters: an autobiographical and literary selection”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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