"The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism. Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country? I don't see why people care about patriotism."

-- Natalie Maines

#Country Quotes #Land Quotes #People Quotes

“Is it just me, or is the world full of beautiful women?”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“God is more concerned with our character than with our achievements. Achievements have importance only in the realm of time. Character is eternal. It determines what we will be through eternity.”

Source : Derek Prince (2012). “Rules of Engagement: Preparing for Your Role in the Spiritual Battle”, p.66, Baker Books
“Listening is a rare happening among human beings. You cannot listen to the word another is speaking if you are preoccupied with your appearance, or with impressing the other, or are trying to decide what you are going to say when the other stops talking, or are debating about whether what is being said is true or relevant or agreeable. Such matters have their place, but only after listening to the word as the word is being uttered. Listening is a primitive act of love in which a person gives himself to anotherâ€™s word, making himself accessible and vulnerable to that word.”
“I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.”
“By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men.”
“The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.”
“Once we thought a few hundred corpses would be enough then we saw thousands were still too few and today we can't even count all the dead Everywhere you look.”

Source : Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.51, A&C Black
“I don't want to lose my accent, I just want it to become smaller.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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