"In our time ... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the gods in ancient times. But those gods you must understand were far more imaginative than our tiny bureaucrats. They spoke from mountaintops not from tiny airless offices. They rode clouds. They were possessed of passion. They had voices and names. Six thousand years of civilization have brought us to this."

-- Chaim Potok

#Passion Quotes #Winning Quotes #Men Quotes

“And what 's impossible can't be, And never, never comes to pass.”
“Welcome to the figurative world of poetry where nothing is 'real,' but everything matters.”
“Two kinds of people live a life without care: one kind are extremely worthy of praise, the other kind are extremely worthy of criticism. The first are those who care nothing for the pleasures of the world and the second (i.e. those who are deserving of criticism) care nothing for haya or modesty.”
“The reality is not that I lack respect for the law; it's that I have greater respect for justice.”

Source : Tim DeChristopher’s statement to the court, grist.org. July 28, 2011.
“These people who come to Comic-Con and dress up - all across the country, the rest of the population who doesn't understand are scoffing at them.”
“The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something.”

Source : "The Sword in the Stone". Book by T. H. White, 1963.
“Whether or not you write well, write bravely.”
“This is about an admitted attempt, encouraged from outside, to challenge and break the State's authority. That is intolerable. Whoever deviates from this policy that I have established, privately or publicly, will be expelled from the Union Nationale.”

Source : Response to the 1949 asbestos miners' strike on CBC radio,

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