"Response is what we have trained ourselves to be; it is a reflection of our manhood, character, ideals. We cannot always control our surface reactions, but we can sit at the helm of our lives and control our responses to the blows of life."

-- Wilferd Peterson

#Character Quotes #Blow Quotes #Reflection Quotes

“Discipline is a choice. It's simply consistently choosing the hard right over the easy wrong.”
“The last thing we need to do, relating to teachers, is the key to a good education in this country is a strong teacher. I would have a minimum wage for all our teachers, $40,000 per year.”
“Founded in August 2003, MySpace would go on to be the most-visited social networking site in the world from 2005 until early 2008.”
“I have inquired for most of my adult life about studies that might show that the death penalty is a deterrent. And I have not seen any research that would substantiate that point.”
“We taste and suckle each other, and I'm so thirsty he could feed me his kiss all night and I'd still be dying in the desert.”
“Conservatives are fond of telling us what a wonderful, happy, prosperous nation this is. The only thing that matches their love of country is the remarkable indifference they show toward the people who live in it.”

Source : Michael Parenti (1996). “Dirty Truths”, p.2, City Lights Books
“by the general love of scandal and detraction in Dublin, one might reasonably imagine they were all to feed themselves through the holes which they had made in the characters of others.”

Source : Laetitia Pilkington (1997). “Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington”, p.264, University of Georgia Press
“Although I was born in Idaho and now live in New York, I definitely identify with the European aesthetic. Paris is my mecca; it's where I discovered my flair for fashion. But I pay rent and work in New York, so that is my home - I love the culture clash of the city.”

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