"Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor."

-- Chiang Kai-shek

#Adversity Quotes #Self Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of the game. If the pitcher is concerned about you, he isn't concentrating enough on the batter.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
“For the first 200 years of our nation's history, corporations were never defined by the courts as persons with free speech rights under the First Amendment.Â Only in recent years have we witnessed this corporate takeover of our First Amendment, culminating in the Citizens United ruling.”
“I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.”
“If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.”
“Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my life, you know?”

Source : "Bristol Palin Opens Up About New Book". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 27, 2011.
“I find it tricky to make plans.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.”

Source : Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.25, Open Road Media

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