"God calls us to care for our fellow man, especially the neediest. I feel that call to lift up the less fortunate; the call to improve our communities and our state. It drives me to serve Louisiana as governor."

-- Kathleen Blanco

#Men Quotes #Community Quotes #Louisiana Quotes

“I only ever privately tell people stuff for the scene. And I often ask what they feel is right. Normally, by the time that we're filming, if it doesn't work, it always the script.”
“I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable.”
“Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.”
“Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.”
“A truly successful person is some one , whose failures are equally spoken as his success.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 09, 2014
“I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them.”
“Time is as necessary for remembering as it is for forgetting. Even the smallest embrace of pain needs time larger than a pause; the greatest pause requires an eternity, the greatest hurt a lifetime. A lifetime is longer than eternity: an eternity can exist without human presence.”

Source : Yvonne Vera (2004). “The Stone Virgins: A Novel”, p.36, Macmillan

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