"Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us."

-- Walter Pater

#Passion Quotes #Giving Quotes #Sorrow Quotes

“Why is the press America's showcase for freedom? Because just about everything else has been regulated.”
“Blue Boy proves that if you don't quite fit in, then you might as well stand out with as much wit, color and audacity as you can muster.”
“Give me the handling of a horse for twenty minutes, and I'll tell you what sort of a groom he has had.”

Source : Anna Sewell (2012). “Black Beauty”, p.171, OUP Oxford
“I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man's land between the country of my past and the continent of my present.”

Source : "American Dreamer" by Bharati Mukherjee, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1997.
“You could put me on any track. I support that one million percent. Whatever the track is, I'm going to smash it. Believe that”
“Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties which confront the workers in every field.”

Source : John Raleigh Mott (1905). “The Evangelization of the World in this Generation”
“We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.”

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