"I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good."

-- Mickey Rourke

#Years Quotes #Trying Quotes #Beats Quotes

“Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.”
“What's most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.”
“I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.”
“I want to be my own player. I want to be Julius Peppers. I don't want to be the next Lawrence Taylor. I don't want to have to live with his legacy.”
“I think we all look for clues that we are not utterly alone... Clues we find in literature and paintings and music and even someoneâ€™s eyes; clues that demonstrate that someone else has felt the same indescribable feelings, seen the same things or passed by the spot even if it was by candlelight three hundred years ago. It means everything, like finding footprints in the sand of a deserted island.”

Source : Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books
“If we think of the Holy Spirit only as an impersonal power or influence, then our thought will constantly be, how can I get hold of and use the Holy Spirit; but if we think of Him in the biblical way as a divine Person, infinitely wise, infinitely holy, infinitely tender, then our thought will constantly be, 'How can the Holy Spirit get hold of and use me?'”
“Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.”
“[W]e need to talk over not only those things which are of vital importance to us as women, but also the things that are of especial interest to us as colored women.”

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