"To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence."

-- David Whyte

#Triumph Quotes #World Quotes #Persuasion Quotes

“Every country should be tired of going to war. War is a terrible thing. If I had been in Congress, as much as I would be inclined naturally to be supportive of a president, any president, I would have voted no, had the issue come to a vote.”
“Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.”
“Animals behave in set patterns, which is why we are able to hunt and kill them. Only man has the capacity to consciously alter his behavior, to improvise and overcome the weight of routine and habit.”
“Israel is the number one rogue state threat to Middle Eastern peace with its nuclear arms and acts of outright aggression towards its peaceful neighbours Syria and Lebanon - and genocidal actions against the marginalised Palestinians of the West Bank - and Gaza in particular.”

Source : "IAEA Chief: Israel the Real Rogue Nuclear State". glossynews.com. October 08, 2009.
“We [England] have become all Billy Big Time and become too big for our boots, and yet we have got nothing to shout about”
“Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.”
“I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response. But when I write, I'm very uncertain whether it's good enough. That is, of course, the writer's agony.”
“He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused.”

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