"Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct."

“Through the cold time she holds me with evergreen devotion she bears up my whiteness.”

Source : Earle Birney (2014). “The Essential Earle Birney”, p.52, The Porcupine's Quill

“People were referring to me as the new Anita Bryant. Anita would get a little jealous.”

“How you experience your life depends on how you look at it. If you look at it as a constant stream of difficulties and challenges, messes and problems, it will show up that way. If, on the other hand, you see it as a continuing flow of good fortune, one good thing after another, that is what you will encounter.”

“In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really.”

Source : "A Conversation with Parminder Nagra". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 7, 2003.

“Shakespeare would never have gone far in today's politically correct world.”

“When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.”

Source : Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

“If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.”

Source : Marjorie Garber (2008). “Shakespeare and Modern Culture”, p.108, Anchor

“God is always faithful to His promises, but He often surprises us in the way He fulfills them.”