"At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome."

-- Huston Smith

#Religious Quotes #Joy Quotes #Promise Quotes

“Iâ€™m not a true vegan. I dabble in sustainable fish and dawdle in the consumption of eggs. Steak doesnâ€™t speak to me, and tempeh is so-so. Iâ€™ll savor a solitary apricot thatâ€™s been kissed by my baby.”
“I found myself pinned to the hallway wall by six feet, two inches of hard, hot male.”
“And then he [Mike Tyson] will have only channel vision.”
“Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care or medical advice. Real Texans don't want any woman to lose control of her life because she can't get birth control.”

Source : "It's the real Texans who count" by Wendy Davis, www.cnn.com. July 12, 2013.
“Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can't push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves.”

Source : Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax
“Even Boris Johnson doesn't think there's going to be a United States of Europe. And I think there's a real question here that you're being asked to make a decision that's irreversible we cant change it, we wake up on Friday and we don't like it, and we're being sold it on a lie because they lied about the cost of Europe, they lied about Turkey's entrance to Europe, they lied about the European army because we've got a veto for that they put that in their leaflets and they've lied about this here tonight too and its not good enough you deserve the truth you deserve the truth.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“We had generals who were admirals and admirals who wanted to be generals. Generals acting as admirals are bad enough, but it was the admirals who wanted to be generals who imperiled victory among the coral islands.”

Source : General Holland M. Smith (2014). “Coral And Brass”, p.39, Pickle Partners Publishing
“You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.”

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