"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

#Peace Quotes #Believe Quotes #Belief Quotes

“I'm trying to create the world around myself to be a place of as much equality and openheartedness as possible.”
“Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.”

Source : Leland Ryken (1984). “How to Read the Bible as Literature”, p.13, Zondervan
“What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.”
“Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.”

Source : Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949). Usually attributed to Dewar, but it should be noted that the line "mind like parachute - only function when open!" appears in the 1936 film Charlie Chan at the Circus (screenplay by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan).
“The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter.”
“Experience is everything. It means so much because it enabled me to learn the game even faster. Playing in the playoffs is the best basketball in the world, and if you can learn under that pressure, succeed under that pressure, it gives you more confidence the next year.”

Source : Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. October 11, 2006.
“I'm sure I went through a stage when I resented being Indian because in every other manner, in terms of cultural reference points and vocabulary and all the rest of it, I was way ahead of everybody else - so the one thing that set me back was being Indian. And I couldn't do anything about it.”
“If you raise taxes during a recession, you head to depression.”

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