"I am more optimistic though, that this court will eventually conclude that the effort to eliminate arbitrariness while preserving fairness in the infliction of [death] is so plainly doomed to failure that is - and the death penalty - must be abandoned altogether. I may not live to see that day, but I have faith that eventually it will arrive."

-- Harry A. Blackmun

#Optimistic Quotes #Effort Quotes #May Quotes

“We have this day to be alive. We better lay down and give up, or stand up and really make some worthwhile memories for ourselves. 'Cause we're not going to be alive forever”
“I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.”
“Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.”
“The champagne was dead. So it goes.”
“Only in black and white can I see the design and textures. I don't consider color photography art. Black and white is an interpretation. Color is a duplication.”
“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.”
“Discipline is rarely enjoyable, but almost always profitable.”

Source : Darrin Patrick (2014). “The Dude's Guide to Manhood: Finding True Manliness in a World of Counterfeits”, p.30, Thomas Nelson Inc
“I had a ploughman's lunch the other day. He wasn't very happy.”

Source : "Tommy Cooper: the best quotes" by Michael Hogan, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2014.

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