"Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships."

-- J. K. Rowling

#Stress Quotes #Mean Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“I first came to London as a musician, and when my group broke up, I did 'Guys and Dolls' at the Watford Palace theatre. After that, Ned Sherrin found me and brought me to the West End to do one of his shows. The work went from strength to strength, so I thought: 'This is where the world wants me; I'll stay.”

Source : "Clarke Peters: 'Lester Freamon's the guy I'd like to grow up to be'". Interview with om Lamont, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2010.
“Whenever the clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were Catholic or Protestant, persecution was the result.”
“Changing is what people do when they have no options left.”

Source : Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.146, Simon and Schuster
“What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking it when it comes.”
“The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.”
“Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.”
“Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.”
“We should stop the non-scientific, pseudo-scientific, and anti-scientific nonsense emanating from the right wing, and start demanding immediate action to reduce global warming and prevent catastrophic climate change that may be on our horizon now. We must not let the [Bush] Administration distort science and rewrite and manipulate scientific reports in other areas. We must not let it turn the Environmental Protection Agency into the Environmental Pollution Agency.”

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