"Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?"

-- Caleb Cushing

#Men Quotes #Virginia Quotes #Madison Quotes

“I think personal power is having the availability to say, 'No' to something, whatever that may be.”
“I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.”
“False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.”
“Sometimes I do readings and people canâ€™t stop laughing, but Iâ€™m reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a desperate humor, rather typical of very different nations, of Jewish people, Ukrainians, and of course, Russians. Itâ€™s despair â€” just keep laughing, until you are dead.”

Source : "Hammer and Tickle". Interview with Stephen Heyman, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. April 16, 2011.
“I'm fiercely protective of my children even though we are on TV.”
“Americans around the country who came forward to make my 'bucket list' dream come true.”

Source : " Brittany Maynard's bucket list beckons her to Grand Canyon" by Bill Briggs, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.
“That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language, where land is in sight for such a long time that after a while it's just the horizon - and then one day birds wheel over that dark shape and it's suddenly close, and all you can do is hope like hell that you've had the right shots.”

Source : Emily Perkins (2012). “Novel About My Wife”, p.68, Bloomsbury Publishing
“None can comprehend eternity but the eternal God. Eternity is an ocean, whereof we shall never see the shore; it is a deep, where we can find no bottom; a labyrinth from whence we cannot extricate ourselves and where we shall never lose the door.”

Source : Thomas Boston (1830). “Human Nature in Its Fourfold State: Of Primitive Integrity, Entire Depravation, Begun Recovery, and Consummate Happiness Or Misery, in the Parents of Mankind in Paradise, the Unregenerate, the Regenerate, All Mankind in the Future State, in Several Practical Discourses”, p.391

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