"There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing."

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Sarah Josepha Hale

#Fear Quotes #Failure Quotes #Hazards Quotes

“I'm not really into the fashion thing.”
“If you're an Indian, you could be very anxious about some of the Supreme Court's decisions, some of the decisions of policy makers, so maybe a little bit of irony there. But I think our "Savage Anxieties," when I titled the book, I really wanted to focus people on the challenge that tribes in this country, as well as indigenous peoples around the world, are confronting Western civilization with.”
“Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.”
“The very same British and American families who had combined to wreck the Indian textile industry in the promotion of the opium trade [...] combined to make the trade, a valuable source of revenue. In 1864 they joined forces to create causes for war and to promote the terrible War Between the States, also known as the American Civil War.”
“I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.”
“Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.”

Source : Catherine Fisher (2011). “Incarceron”, p.214, Penguin
“Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.”
“I'd love kids. I'm obsessed with babies. Of course I've thought about baby names. A million times. I like Alfie for a little boy.”

Source : "The Voice". Interview with Jonathan Heaf, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. August 6, 2014.

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