"I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me."

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Source : Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

Ellen Glasgow

#Strength Quotes #Lying Quotes #Down And Quotes

“How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of oneâ€™s place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond oneself. . . . Does scientific explanation of the world diminish its spiritual beauty? I think not. Science and spirituality are complementary, not conflicting; additive, not detractive. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades. (158-159)”
“New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself. To think of 'living' there was to reduce the miraculous to the mundane; one does not 'live' at Xanadu.”
“When he'd pushed inside me and I'd feel him begin to penetrate, it had turned me into a wild thing-hot, wet, and desperate for more of him. With every kiss, every caress, every thrust, I'd just needed more. He'd touched me, I went nuts. The world dwindled down to one thing: him.”
“If I have an iPod, I'm good.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health.”
“Good and evil both increase at compound interest.”
“Then shoulder to shoulder! Let us engirdle the little circle of the earth with the chains that bind us to each other. To one end let us aim our thoughts, and to one end let us aim our souls. Hail, dawn of liberty, behind thee is the redeeming sun.”
“You become a star not because of your title; you become a star because you are adding star value to the company”

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