"I wish the air were pure oxygen, and then as it says in our chemistry book, our life would sweep through its fevered burning course in a few hours and we would live in a perfect delirium of excitement and would die vibrating with passion, for anything would be better than this lazy sluggish life."

-- M. Carey Thomas

#Book Quotes #Passion Quotes #Air Quotes

“On every thing are traced decay and change. Look! how the shifting seasons slip away.”

Source : Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.22
“Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. [...] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly of rousing our awareness of God's love for us rather than trying to rouse God's awareness of our love for him, like the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:26-29).”
“It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.”
“I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath the surface in that way as well.”
“It is a great bond to dislike the same things.”
“There was a lynching case as late as 2011, so it's not as far away as we think. I think persecution by powerful structures, on a people who are marginalized, is not new. The idea of lynching is well known, and the way we present it in the play makes the lynching somewhat of a relief, compared to the barbaric treatment they were receiving as sharecroppers.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
“Those who reach decisions promptly and definitely, know what they want, and generally get it.”
“It will be necessary for us Indians - Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Parsis and all others to whom India is their home - to recognize a common flag to live and die for.”

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