"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Motivational Quotes

“Winning an award is a great feeling but winning the Vodafone Crossword Popular Choice Award is particularly exhilarating because it is based upon public voting. I find it a strange quirk of fate that Chanakya's Chant, a political tale, should end up winning an election!”
“A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.”
“For my own style, I love vintage. 60's and 70's are my favorite. I love baby doll dresses and the soft colors. I try to mix a little bit of modern into that - maybe I'll wear it with boots. At my school we wear a uniform, but we have one day a week we can wear whatever we want.”
“I find myself doing fieldwork physically, in the tradition of anthropology. I literally go to the opposite end of the world, to the most exotic faraway places I possibly can, only to find the closest things to me when I get there.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.
“He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.”
“If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair In other's arms breathe out the tender tale”
“Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and children amid the flames and the purloining of altar vessels. When it goes away it leaves smoking ruins, where lie citizens bayonetted through the throat. It is not a children's pastime like mere highway robbery.”

Source : Stephen Crane (2015). “Men, Women, and Boats”, p.181, The Floating Press
“Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.”

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