"You can't give up. Sometimes you get knocked down, but you have to get back up, fighting. You have to think about the others who come behind you as well. And you have to think of the example that you set for others."

-- Shirley Sherrod

#Giving Up Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.”

Source : "Learning to smile" by Nick Greenslade, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2007.
“We used to think, 'I have a feeling; I want to make a call.' Now our impulse is, 'I want to have a feeling; I need to send a text.'”

Source : "The Flight From Conversation". www.nytimes.com. April 21, 2012.
“Michael Jackson's charity efforts? Mmm. I'm sure they have nothing to do with his molestation charges.”
“Find out who you are and figure out what you believe in. Even if it's different from what your neighbors believe in and different from what your parents believe in. Stay true to yourself. Have your own opinion. Don't worry about what people say about you or think about you. Let the naysayers nay. They will eventually grow tired of naying.”
“We are not filled with the Spirit of God to do easy things. He fills us with His Spirit so we can do impossible things.”
“The Buddha taught that all life is suffering. We might also say that life, being both attractive and constantly dangerous, is intoxicating and ultimately toxic. 'Toxic' comes from toxicon, Pendell tells us, with a root meaning of 'a poisoned arrow.' All organic life is struck by the arrows of real and psychic poisons. This is understood by any true, that is to say, not self-deluding, spiritual path.”
“You have no idea how strong my love is!”
“Men and women who are lonely create. Those who are gregarious rarely do... Any poet would rather bed with a girl than write a poem about her. All art is the result of frustration. Art is energy deflected from its normal course in action.”

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