"Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned-that of any achievements open to you, the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character-that your character, your actions, your desires, your emotions are the products of the premises held by your mind..."

-- John Galt

#Character Quotes #Pride Quotes #Men Quotes

“I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.”

Source : "Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's best shot". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2009.
“There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.”

Source : N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”, p.28, Hachette UK
“There wasn't reparative therapy in Corinth. So in this passage I think people came to Christ and experienced a new life in him apart from the therapeutic process. But when it comes to someone pointing to this passage and saying homosexuals changed, well, I'm not sure that's what that passage is referring to.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to live or create, and they were bucking all kinds of spoken and unspoken rules.”
“the gender of God, God's presumed masculinity, has functioned as the ultimate religious legitimization of the unjust social structures which victimize women.”

Source : Sandra Marie Schneiders (1986). “Women and the Word: The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women”, p.5, Paulist Press
“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”
“Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives.”
“I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.”

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