"I have been whipped, as the saying is, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned by that disaster; by only hanging a few moments by the neck; and I feel quite determined to make the utmost possible out of a defeat."

-- John Brown

#Necks Quotes #Determined Quotes #Defeat Quotes

“The gay movement is an evil institution that's goal is to defeat the marriage-based society and replace it with a culture of sexual promiscuity in which there's no restrictions on sexual conduct except the principle of mutual choice.”
“I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.”
“The standard model gives us an accuracy of ten decimal digits, this is an amazing success that has never been achieved before in science.”
“I haven't got the kind of discipline where I can turn my emotion inside out and then just switch off. It affects me fairly profoundly and I don't like putting myself through that kind of mincer every day.”
“As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses. An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation. Justice is never advanced in the taking of a human life. Morality is never upheld by a legalized murder.”
“One is but a shade of the other.”

Source : Danielle Trussoni (2010). “Angelology: A Novel”, p.81, Penguin
“The imagination is like a muscle: it strengthens through use.”

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