"If you begin feeling beaten, you will achieve nothing. If you fight, you will perhaps have a chance of achieving something."

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Source : "Nazi era French Resistance leader dies" by Tim Lister, www.cnn.com. April 11, 2012.

Raymond Aubrac

#Fighting Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Chance Quotes

“Perhaps everything lies in knowing what words to speak, what actions to perform, and in what order and rhythm; or else someone's gaze, answer, gesture is enough; it is enough for someone to do something for the sheer pleasure of doing it, and for his pleasure to become the pleasure of others: at that moment, all spaces change, all heights, distances; the city is transfigured, becomes crystalline, transparent as a dragonfly.”
“In my work, I attempt to deal with the Bible as I would deal with any work of literature.”

Source : Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org
“Gardening is like everything else in life, you get out of it as much as you put in. No one can make a garden by buying a few packets of seeds or doing an afternoon's weeding. You must love it, and then your love will be repaid a thousandfold, as every gardener knows.”

Source : Margery Fish (2011). “We Made a Garden”, p.54, Pavilion Books
“The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren. If someone said, 'Think of a happy place for you,' I'd say a glacial plane near the South Pole, the wind howling, nobody in sight, a shack with a pot-belly stove and some tea.”
“Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.”
“The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization of the state. But to destroy it at such a moment would be to destroy the only organism by means of which the victorious proletariat can assert its newly-conquered power, hold down its capitalist adversaries, and carry out that economic revolution of society without which the whole victory must end in a new defeat and a mass slaughter of the workers similar to those after the Paris commune.”
“I've been in the entertainment industry since I was five and it has always been something that has been in my blood.”
“I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.”

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