"Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies."

-- Howard Thurman

#Mean Quotes #Commitment Quotes #Yield Quotes

“The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero.”

Source : "100,000 Galaxies: What quest for alien 'supercivilizations' really tells us" by Michael Guillen, www.foxnews.com. April 25, 2015.
“You don't see a positive culture, stability among teachers, or leadership. We don't focus enough in our policies on creating conditions to educating kids with the greatest needs. There is no state that does that.”
“Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.”

Source : Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr
“I want to be in 'Funny Girl.' And I want Ryan Murphy to direct it.”
“My dream of happiness: a quiet spot by the Jamaican seashore . . . hearing the wind sob with the beauty and the tragedy of everything. Sitting under an almond tree, with the leaf spread over me like an umbrella.”

Source : Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.413, Rowman & Littlefield
“Those who have tried meekness know the importance of being important.”
“The cruelest affront is treating the person as exactly the person he is. We all long to be understood, but not for what we are. We long to be understood for what we might have been had all been for the best in the best of all possible worlds and, at the same time, to be forgiven for what we are.”
“President Obama knows that wars are not to be entered into lightly; he knows that overseas conflicts don't only do damage in the land in which they are fought, but in the land of those who fight them, as well.”

Source : "Lincoln Chafee DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

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