"As long as you are still fighting in defense of your dignity and for your occupied land, all is well."

-- George Habash

#Fighting Quotes #Land Quotes #Long Quotes

“Hey, look at this!" He holds up a glistening, perfect pearl about the size of a pea. "You know, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns to pearls," he says earnestly to Finnick. "No, it doesn't," says Finnick dismissively. But I crack up, remembering that's how a clueless Effie Trinket presented us to the people of the Capitol last year, before anyone knew us. As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.”
“I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.”

Source : "Arthur Miller's Daughter Humanizes Playwright in New Documentary" by Glenn Garvin, reason.com. March 16, 2018.
“I love America, and I love to say that my family is American.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“People who believe they are acting with the mandate of God, who see others who don't share their beliefs as inferior in the eyes of God, make dangerous leaders. Just ask Osama Bin Laden.”
“The life of a woman may be divided into three epochs; in the first she dreams of love, in the second she makes love in the third she regrets it.”
“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats...”
“And the brave make their own fortune!”
“Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.”

Source : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1983). “First love”, Viking Adult

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