"For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation."

-- William Penn

#Men Quotes #Temptation Quotes #Battle Quotes

“When I go to Florida for Christmas I always take my nieces and nephews out on excursions, ... I become like a big kid again. We go on all the big rides at the theme parks or I stick them in go-karts where their feet can't quite reach the pedals. I think that if you can continue to have the child at heart you may grow old physically but you will stay young mentally.”
“I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.”
“The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.”
“I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear.”

Source : "Dame Joan Sutherland, operatic icon". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. 2005.
“My view is there will be problems and bad people as long as the earth exists, and since we're moving into a completely interdependent global environment, we're better off building a world we'd like to live in when the United States are not the only military superpower. That is, we need to build a world of shared responsibility, shared benefits, and shared commitment to our common humanity.”
“There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied int he one, I will indulge the other.”
“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion. In South Africa they have a phrase called ubuntu. Ubuntu comes out of a philosophy that says, the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me.”
“The German passion for bureaucracy -- for written and signal forms . . . to move about, to work, to exist -- is like a steel pin pinning each French individual to a sheet of paper, the way an entomologist pins each specimen insect . . .”

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