"O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands."

-- Sun Tzu

#Art Quotes #Fate Quotes #Hands Quotes

“So I tried to activate my glutes as best I could, in between, but...they never stayed activated.”
“From the cradle to the grave is a school, so if what we call problems are lessons, we see life differently,”

Source : "Facundo Cabral, Folk Singer Shot And Killed In Guatemala" by Stephanie Marcus, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2011.
“Women also lose sight of their goals by taking on extra responsibilities. We are virtual responsibility magnets. We don't make these decisions consciously or deliberately, but out of the fear that if we don't act on a need, it will never get resolved. ... But we fail to realize that once we become responsible for something, we may be responsible to it forever.”

Source : Pat Heim, Susan K. Golant (2005). “Hardball for Women: Revised Edition”, p.211, Penguin
“Compassion speaks with a slight accent. She was a vulnerable child, miserable in school, cold, shy ... In ninth grade she was befriended by Courage. Courage lent Compassion bright sweaters, explained the slang, showed her how to play volleyball.”
“I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to me a chronic imbalance in modern life.”
“If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.”
“As it becomes more and more difficult to get land, so will the virtual enslavement of the laboring-classe s go on. As the value of land rises, more and more of the earnings of labor will be demanded for the use of land, until finally nothing is left to laborers but the wages of slavery -- a bare living.”
“The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions.”

Source : Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

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