"It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is the essential spirit of Christianity, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses."

-- George William Curtis

#Christmas Quotes #Sunshine Quotes #June Quotes

“Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.”

Source : "E! true Hollywood story : the real stories behind the glitter" by Lanford Beard, (p. 146), 2005.
“Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.”

Source : "The Sayings of Chairman Barney" by Richard Reeves, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 2, 2011.
“I should willingly give every drop of my blood to please Him and to prevent sinners offending Him. I shall be satisfied only when I am a victim to make reparation for my innumerable sins and for the sins of all the world.”
“You must understand that the workout does not actually produce muscular growth. The workout is merely a trigger that sets the body's growth mechanism into motion. It is the body itself, of course, that produces growth; but it does so only during a sufficient rest period.”
“The great desideratum in Government is, so to modify the sovereignty as that it may be sufficiently neutral between different parts of the Society to controul one part from invading the rights of another, and at the same time sufficiently controuled itself, from setting up an interest adverse to that of the entire Society.”
“When I was younger, I was really anti-Hollywood. Now I'm more accepting of it because I'm less of a snob.”
“Hopefully I can inspire lots of people to learn about [Patti Smith], to read poetry or learn about William Blake or Arthur Rimbaud.”
“There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.”

Source : Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.263, Bloomsbury Publishing

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