"The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life."

-- Sophie Kinsella

#Life Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Giving Up Quotes

“To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.”
“By the laws of rectitude accused Persons, however atrocious their offences, are allowed to make their defence, and by a verdict of a Jury of their Peers, they are either convicted, or acquitted. I have some times thought that we Women are hardly dealt by since strictly speaking, we cannot legally be tried by our Peers, for men are not our Peers, and yet upon their breath our guilt or innocence dependsâ€” thus are our privileges in this, as in many other respects tyrannically abridged, and we are forced to yield to necessity.”
“We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.”

Source : "John Stott: 10 Memorable Quotes" by Eryn Sun, www.christianpost.com. July 28, 2011.
“The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus.”

Source : "Ebola Epidemic 'Out of Control'", abcnews.go.com. August 3, 2014.
“In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.”

Source : "Putting an End to Secret Campaign Contributions" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2012.
“AERIN is saturated with the qualities that have surrounded me my entire life, many of which came from my grandmother, Estee: passion, style, hard work, family, and, of course, all things beautiful.”
“Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.”

Source : Andrew Sean Greer (2013). “The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells”, p.55, Faber & Faber
“India always changes people, and I have been no exception”

Source : Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (2016). “Heat and Dust”, p.7, Counterpoint

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