"The acknowledgment of powerlessness does empower. We humans are powerless over a whole host of factors and conditions in the world, and mostly we're not bothered by these."

-- Peg O'Connor

#Empowering Quotes #Doe Quotes #World Quotes

“The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.”
“Before prayer changes others, it first changes us.”
“Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.”

Source : Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.302, University of Chicago Press
“People with big personalities are best in the center of the table. They can help carry the conversation from that place.”
“I remember my second game for England - we lost 2-0 to Norway, I was subbed and didn't do myself justice and I thought that was the end of my England career.”
“I have to say, I'm not someone who's really big into my family history - never really was very curious about it. The only thing I know about it is what I picked up from my aunts and parents.”
“Iâ€™m much better at working out ideas in action than I am in theorizing about it and then transferring my thinking to action. I donâ€™t work that way. I work with tentative ideas and I experiment and then with that experimentation in action, I finally come to the conclusions about what I think is the right way to do it.”
“The Norse way of speaking, no one really knew what the Vikings sounded liked, they were Norsemen. The accent is really a combination of a Scandinavian accent, maybe with a Swedish accent and an old way of speaking.”

Source : "Interview: Katheryn Winnick discusses her ‘Vikings’ shield maiden". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. March 2, 2013.

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