"Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking."

--

James L. Farmer, Jr.

#Liars Quotes #Rights Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Faith and initiative rightly combined, remove mountains, barriers and achieve the unheard of and the miraculous.”
“The mistake I really learned from was in 2005, leading the Indianapolis 500. I had a decision whether or not to save enough fuel to finish the race - which meant slowing down - or going all-out for the win. I went conservative and saved enough fuel to go to the end but finished fourth.”
“I am often criticized for spending too much time off the ice, but if you were in my shoes, you'd see how necessary it is.”
“I'm probably an actor that tends to, instead of putting things on, think about it more in terms of taking away what's not in the character, until I'm left with what is. If that makes sense. That's probably a particularly American way of working, but maybe not. The end of any movie is a readjustment.”

Source : "Good golly Miss Molly", www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2001.
“She took my hand and pulled me after her, her shoulders giving off a sweet peppermint concoction that the bodies of young women sometimes produce to make my life more difficult.”

Source : Gary Shteyngart (2006). “Absurdistan: A Novel”, p.212, Random House
“There was nothing the matter with me that was not also the matter with everyone else. I was not as interesting as I thought I was. My major problem, inadequate or inappropriate love from my parents, was as common as dirt. And one rainy day, all the boring poignancy of these realizations detonated in me like an atom bomb, burning the dead shadow of each former torment or preoccupation onto solid rock. Those silhouettes, that record would remain: the museum where I used to be.”

Source : J. D. Daniels (2017). “The Correspondence”, p.25, Random House
“Some friends of mine in the class ahead of me in college were auditioning for graduate school in New York, and then a few of them got into Juilliard, and it sort of opened my eyes. I didn't really know anything about it, but it opened my eyes to a possible next step after school, where I could just deepen my knowledge and also not be responsible for life and stay in school.”
“A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.”

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