"She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him."

-- Eudora Welty

#Spirit Quotes #Dickens Quotes

“We have far more ability than we give ourselves credit for,”

Source : FaceBook post by Hugh Jackman from Aug 27, 2012
“Holland I think is the best school to learn football. I think its a great league for that because it's not the strongest league in Europe.”
“I fell in love with Erica Kane the summer before my freshman year of high school. Like all red-blooded teen American boys, I'd come home from water polo practice and eat a box of Entenmann's Pop'Ems donut holes in front of the TV while obsessively fawning over 'All My Children' and Erica, her clothes, and her narcissistic attitude.”
“Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?”
“We wouldn't pay to rent and watch the same painful movie two hundred fifty times, but somehow we let our mind replay a bad memory over and over, each time experiencing the same distress and shame.”

Source : Jan Chozen Bays (2011). “How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness”, p.6, Shambhala Publications
“One of the main aims of Sharon is to prevent a Palestinian state - a real, viable, sovereign, free Palestinian state. It has been the major task of his life for the last forty years. What Sharon wants to do is "shorten the lines," in military slang. He wants to give up some positions which are untenable, or which cost too much to keep, and to withdraw to where he wants Israel to be.”

Source : Source: progressive.org
“I nodded with genuine synthetic sympathy.”
“Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.”

Source : Speech Accepting the Republican Presidential Nomination, delivered 16 July 1964, San Francisco

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