"It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do?"

-- Douglas Coupland

#Events Quotes #Who We Are Quotes #Remember Quotes

“I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.”
“On his mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: 'I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself.' To the executioner: 'Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thyne office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thyne honesty.'”
“In the midst of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Putin invaded the Republic of Georgia. Let's call it for what it is. Here is Vladimir Putin with a failing Soviet franchise. And when he can't win the hearts and minds of his neighboring nations, he uses energy extortion, masked gunmen and barbed wire.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“I definitely feel, when I'm wearing the costume, that I could scare people and hurt them.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it. . . . This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.”

Source : Clarence Jordan (2005). “The Substance of Faith: and Other Cotton Patch Sermons”, p.76, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“Iâ€™m such an idiot - the thing was I was in there because this homeless guy was hungry. I went past and thought â€˜Iâ€™m going to go in and get him some wedges.â€™ I was actually doing a good deed. Itâ€™s so me to end up the other way around where Iâ€™ve done damage.”
“I feel like few things are more successful at portraying honest emotions/experiences. There also just seems to be a certain feeling/mood that I respond well to. I feel similarly about the artist Kahimi Karie and the films "An Education" and "Marie Antoinette." Anything with a strongly and unapologetically feminine point of view I tend to be interested in.”
“I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.”

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