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“When you think about your heritage, you think about toughness and hard work.”
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“Not to be miserable is all some people are capable of.”
Source : Elizabeth Robinson Montagu, Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) (1809). “The letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu: with some of the letters of her correspondents”, p.23
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“People judge you by the way you play in the playoffs.”
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“To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.”
Source : George Berkeley (1837). “Works: Account of His Life and Letters”, p.362
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“What counted was not the facts but the fears.”
Source : Max Lerner (1957). “America as a Civilization”
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“The vestibule door opens onto a June morning so fine and scrubbed Classira pauses at the threshold as she would at the edge of a pool, watching the turquoise water lapping at the tiles, the liquid nets of sun wavering in the blue depths. As if standing at the edge of a pool she delays for a moment the plunge, the quick membrane of chill, the plain shock of immersion.”
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“When I'm talking to someone I think 'can I use this dialogue in a book,'" said Luis. "If the answer is no I try talking to someone else.”
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“The United States must not adopt the tactics of the enemy. Means are important, as ends. Crisis makes it tempting to ignore the wise restraints that make men free. But each time we do so, each time the means we use are wrong, our inner strength, the strength which makes us free, is lessened.”
