"I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death."

-- Patrick Henry

#Inspirational Quotes #Death Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.”
“The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.”

Source : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. January 17, 2003.
“The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.”
“Love is a gift we deliver when we would rather not.”

Source : Stephen L. Carter (2002). “The Emperor of Ocean Park”, Knopf
“The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.”
“Once upon a time a Georgian printed a couple of books that attracted notice, but immediately it turned out that he was little more than an amanuensis for the local blacks--that his works were really the products, not of white Georgia, but of black Georgia. Writing afterward as a white man, he swiftly subsided into the fifth rank.”
“She looked at his young face, so full of concern and tenderness; and she remembered why she had run away from everyone else and sought solitude here. She yearned to kiss him, and she saw the answering longing in his eyes. Every fiber of her body told her to throw herself into his arms, but she knew what she had to do. She wanted to say, I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage; but instead she said: "I think I'm going to marry Alfred.”
“My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.”

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