"It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that I hope to inspire with this book."

-- Mary Roach

#Book Quotes #Inspire Quotes #Delight Quotes

“If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is”
“No matter how bad your life gets, you can always turn it around.”
“My sister Jennifer is an Emmy winning journalist and mother of three amazing girls. She brings an exceptional dedication to her job, her family, and her community, and has been a role model of mine for many, many years. I'm extremely proud of her.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.”

Source : Interview with Giulio Prisco, giulioprisco.blogspot.ru. November 2, 2002.
“I have a strong spiritual commitment, and I try to express that in my work. Salvation cannot be worked out in human terms. The point of my writing is to touch upon the systematics of prayer and on how we arrive at a method of achieving spiritual coherence in our lives.”
“The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.”

Source : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Rama P. Coomaraswamy (2004). “The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy”, p.133, World Wisdom, Inc
“I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard.”

Source : "ZZ top". Interview with Andrew Hussey, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2004.
“A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.”

Source : Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.87, University of Chicago Press

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