"You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition"

-- Philippa Gregory

#Ambition Quotes #Compromise Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.”

Source : "Yo-Yo Boing!". Book by Giannina Braschi, 1998.
“If you dont tour, you cannot expect to sell a huge numbers of your albums either. It was both a business - and an economical decision and we wanted to play anyway. We just wanted to get out for the tour when it was safe enough for us.”
“Other arms reach out to me, Other eyes smile tenderly, Still in peaceful dreams I see, The road leads back to you.”
“You have two choices, [Plouffe] told Obama. You can stay in the Senate, enjoy your weekends at home, take regular vacations, and have a lovely time with your family. Or you can run for president, have your whole life poked at and pried into, almost never see your family, travel incessantly, bang your tin cup for donations like some street-corner beggar, lead a lonely, miserable life.”
“There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value. Conservation means development as much as it does protection.”
“In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.”
“Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body, because the chains are on your mind.”
“You see, deep down beneath my superficial and shallow exterior, I'm really very superficial and shallow.”

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