"Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you got to sweat your mind."

-- Clementine Hunter

#Sweat Quotes #Mind Quotes #Cotton Quotes

“Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.”
“The people I know that have the hardest time keeping it together emotionally are people that don't workout.”
“Anti-Semitism is really a hatred of capitalism.”
“Peace is the proper result of the Christian temper. It is the great kindness which our religion doth us, that it brings us to a settledness of mind, and a consistency within ourselves.”

Source : Simon Patrick (1848). “The Heart's Ease, Or, A Remedy Against All Troubles: A Consolatory Discourse, Particularly Directed to Those who Have Lost Their Friends and Dear Relations : to which is Added Two Papers Printed in the Time of the Plague, 1665”, p.3
“I'll never run for office. But I intend, either on the fiscal commission or on issues like immigration, to hopefully have my voice be heard.”
“I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.”
“But lilies, stolen from grassy mold, No more curled state unfold, Translated to a vase of gold; In burning throne though they keep still Serenities unthawed and chill.”

Source : Francis Thompson (2002). “Poems of Francis Thompson”, p.13, A&C Black
“If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the well-being of the world's people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends”

Source : Gordon Brown's speech to foreign finance and environment ministers on climate change, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2005.

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