"What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful."

-- Narada Michael Walden

#Song Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Gone Quotes

“Brokenness is often the road to breakthrough. Be encouraged.”
“What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.”

Source : Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.192, Grove Press
“Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.”

Source : Speech to American Bar Association, Atlanta, Ga., 22 Oct. 1964
“I mean, I take that with the biggest amount of pride there could possibly be because I have so many idols of gymnasts that were before me. I think having perspective now on how hard it is for all of the starts to line up for something like that to happen, I'm just very proud of that moment and that whole atmosphere.”
“Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.”
“Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.”

Source : FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Jul 17, 2012
“There's no such thing as a handicap - it's all in your head”
“We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is officially recorded, confirmed, a single wrong to humanity, a single wrong to justice and to right, particularly if it is universally, legally, nationally, commodiously accepted, that a single crime shatters and is sufficient to shatter the whole social pact, the whole social contract, that a single legal crime, a single dishonorable act will bring about the loss of ones honor, the dishonor of a whole people. It is a touch of gangrene that corrupts the entire body.”

Source : "Men and Saints". Book by Charles Péguy, transl. by Anne and Julian Green, p. 11, 1944.

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