"There's nothing like a headstrong woman to make you happy to be alive."

-- Wendelin Van Draanen

#Alive Quotes #Make You Happy Quotes #Happy To Be Alive Quotes

“There is a massive economic opportunity out there to be taken without waiting for government legislation.”
“Be rightly related to God, find your joy there, and out of you will flow rivers of living water.”
“â€¦there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creatureâ€¦And yet she had loved him- sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being.”
“... you cannot make a man clean [simply] by washing his shirt.”
“Artists see the world in a very different way than everyone else, and it's important when the artist points a lens at the law.”

Source : "The 'Ready for Her Close-Up' Transcript" by Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. May 26, 2015.
“Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”

Source : 1849 'Nationality in Literature', in the North American Review, Jul.
“I think itâ€™s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that weâ€™re unique geniuses, and the constant fear that weâ€™re witless frauds who are speeding toward epic failure.”
“I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men--great men-- must build monuments and seek fame?”

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