"Time after time, on matters great and small, we are still standing on the sidelines, mutely accepting what is decided elsewhere instead of raising our voices and making our own choices. Scotland's much vaunted partnership of Jonah and the whale."

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Source : Quoted in Michael Russell (ed) Stop the World: The Autobiography of Winnie Ewing (2004).

Winnie Ewing

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“God doesn't reveal his grand design. He reveals Himself.”
“You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.”
“I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy.”
“I read everything I could find: books and online. Sometimes bigger revelations came to me through finer details or something that you wouldn't pick up just by surface reading.”

Source : "'Klondike's' Abbie Cornish, Johnny Simmons on Finding Gold in History". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 22, 2014.
“I don't think I'm really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, 'Oh, God, that is a bit strong.' And I wonder if I've always been like that and I haven't been aware of it.”

Source : "So, Clive, why did it all go wrong?" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2001.
“I've done my best to drive you away, Sadie," he said suddenly. "But you've never left me.”
“We needed someone to recognize the importance of check and balances, accountability, transparency. There was a real systemic problem at South Carolina State, a problem that has gone on for 25 or 30 years”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Anything and everything you can think of can turn your life around.”

Source : FaceBook post by Nik Halik from Aug 27, 2012

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