"Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond."

-- Alice Walker

#Book Quotes #Likes Quotes #Duty Quotes

“Everybody works but the vacant lot”
“Inevitably in any work you do I think that there is a sense of continuity, and I like that.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“You know later in life I was inspired to sing and that would've been Aretha, Chaka Khan, Mariah - the typical divas were the inspiration. I've always enjoyed all those singers.”
“And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is lifted from the pit and raised to a throne where a jeweled crown is placed on his head. The world has no shame in doing this; it is prompt to hand out both pleasure and pain and has no need of us an our doings.”

Source : Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2016). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.303, Penguin
“As soon as I came to believe there was a God, I understood that I could not do otherwise than live only for him.”
“Tara (Lipinski) got out there like a bat out of hell and skated her guts out. Michelle skated very well, but she skated conservatively. She skated great, just not fantastic. That was the difference.”
“I have no choice but to defend the most vulnerable among us.”
“I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago.”

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