"Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#Justice Quotes #Energy Quotes #Enthusiasm Quotes

“Death, however clearly foretold, still came unexpectedly.”
“Don't ever tell anyone where you bought something. If you get a complement say, "Thank you. I got it in Europe.”
“Flaws make us all human, and you're rooting for characters because of those flaws. It's ageless if you're interested in relationships and the way people can or can't relate to each other.”
“Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.”
“It means caring for one another in our families: husbands and wives first protect one another, and then, as parents, they care for their children, and children themselves, in time, protect their parents.”
“I work on a TV show I love, I have the opportunity to do movies with actors I respect, and I'm in love with the man I want to spend the rest of my life with, who pushes me and excites me...There's this fighter in me that kind of needs to be put to rest a little bit. I don't need to be so tough to protect myself.”

Source : "Fun Fearless Female of the Year: Ali Larter". www.cosmopolitan.com. January 13, 2009.
“Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.”
“For man's greatest crime is to have been born.”

Source : "Life Is a Dream". Play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, 1635.

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