"I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever."

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Source : "60 Minutes" with Mike Wallace, www.cbsnews.com. 2001.

Barbara Cook

#Desire Quotes #Quitting Quotes

“The criminal justice system should have the authority to determine the immigration status of all criminals, regardless of race or ethnicity, and report illegal immigrants who commit crimes to federal authorities.”

Source : "Susana Martínez Tells Police to Check Immigration Status in New Mexico". The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. February 01, 2011.
“Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.”

Source : Gary Snyder (1969). “Earth House Hold”, p.38, New Directions Publishing
“Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken earlier by France, Rome and Macedonia. The curtain was rung down on that phase of history, at least, by the sudden invention of the hydrogen bomb, of the ballistic missile and of rockets that can be aimed to hit the moon.”

Source : William L. Shirer (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”, p.12, RosettaBooks
“Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit of looking down upon their fellow creatures with contempt, esteeming them as dogs or devils, and imagining themselves beings of superior dignity and importance, to whom all are indebted. This banishes the idea, and unqualifies the mind for the practice of common justice.”

Source : David Rice (1812). “A Kentucky Protest Against Slavery: Slavery Inconsistent with Justice and Good Policy, Proved by a Speech, Delivered in the Convention, Held at Danville, Kentucky”, p.7
“Nice dress you're almost wearing. You ever think about changing professions?" -Ranger”
“Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.”
“Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.”
“I felt that we started to go through the motions. Our hearts weren't there. Because we were always working on the band, and it became more about selling records than about writing and being passionate. That's why I ultimately lost interest. I don't want to speak for everybody, but I personally started to lose interest because we were doing it for the wrong reasons. It became monotony and it just wasn't fun anymore. Yeah, an obligation.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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