"Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end."

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Source : Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”

Robert Herrick

#Fighting Quotes #Victory Quotes #Crowns Quotes

“Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.”
“What you try to become is a bringer of magic, for magic and the truth are closely allied and movies are sheer magic ... when they work, it's, well, it's glorious.”
“People joke about me that I talk in voiceovers. I have that sort of inflection. But I do talk in voiceovers. I have done it my whole life.”
“I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them - which was much higher than what the trader was giving them.”
“Be honest. Be kind. Be honorable. Work hard. And always be awesome.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 20, 2013
“There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.”
“There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have relinquished belief only with regret. To this I reply: who wishes that there was a permanent, unalterable celestial despotism that subjected us to continual surveillance and could convict us of thought-crime, and who regarded us as its private property even after we died? How happy we ought to be, at the reflection that there exists not a shred of respectable evidence to support such a horrible hypothesis.”
“I saw a great bumper sticker that read: 'Do something that scares you every day.' That really stuck with me. I try to live like that.”

Source : Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.197, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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