"There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer."

-- Gladys Taber

#Moving Quotes #Hero Quotes #Men Quotes

“Because ainâ€™t that white people for you, wondering if they are happy enough.”
“I know sometimes I need to be more like M.J., but M.J. also needs to be more like me. He needs to be the player he is with more my mentality.”
“He pressed a kiss to my ear. â€œDo you feel stretched? Can you tell Iâ€™ve been inside you?â€ I nodded, feeling my knees go a little weak from the tone in his voice. â€œGood. I like knowing you can feel where Iâ€™ve been.”
“Ask me to cut off my right arm for you, and I'll do it. Ask me to lay down my life for you, and I'll do it. But Please don't ask me to give you up now that I've found you again. Don't ask that, Amy”

Source : Catherine Anderson (2009). “Comanche Heart”, p.46, Penguin
“By journalistic custom and D.C. law, of course, reporters don't carry guns to news conferences -- and certainly not when the person at the lectern is the NRA's Asa Hutchinson, an unremarkable former congressman and Bush administration official whom most reporters couldn't pick out of a lineup. But the NRA wasn't going to leave any doubt about its superior firepower.”
“The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear the means of grace the way they do not fear sin. And he does so, not by light but by obscurity, not by realities but by shadows; not by clarity and substance, but by dreams and the creatures of psychosis. And men are so poor in intellect that a few cold chills down their spine will be enough to keep them from ever finding out the truth about anything.”
“We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.”
“You have the right not to be killed, unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat.”

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