"My life now centered around sleepless nights and stand-bys, dodging the Brits and calming nerves to go out on operations. But the people stood by us. The people not only opened the doors of their homes to lend us a hand, but they opened their hearts to us. I learned that without the people, we could not survive and I knew that I owed them everything."

-- Bobby Sands

#Home Quotes #Heart Quotes #Night Quotes

“I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.”
“When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.”
“Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name.”
“Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”
“We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.”
“Do not be content with the old anointing. It is essential to a more holy and happy life...that you seek to be anointed with new oil. Do not be satisfied with past experiences. [...] Seek to have a new revelation of Christ to your soul. Seek the renewed application of His precious blood to your conscience. Oh, seek the fresh oil!”
“I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.”

Source : Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.
“In farm country, the plover has only two real enemies: the gully and the drainage ditch. Perhaps we shall one day find that these are our enemies, too.”

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