"Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there."

-- Mikhail Lermontov

#Heart Quotes #Decision Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders.”
“In 1600, when Shakespeares audience at the Globe heard Hamlet for the first time, every one of them knew very well what it meant to be handed a cup of wine by a figure of authority and told to drink.”
“With sports, there's no entitlement on the field. It's about numbers. It's about results. It's about outcomes.”

Source : "Meritocracy: World Cup Fever" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2010.
“Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.”
“I take solace in knowing that some of the steps I took can help other people.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale!”
“In other words, in the same way that mass incarceration surged because of a real thing, it's finally starting to ebb because of a real thing: the actual, concrete decline in violent crime that started in the early 90s and which appears to be permanent. America is simply a safer place than it used to be, and looks set to stay that way.”

Source : "Our Obsession With Mass Incarceration May Finally Be Ebbing" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 2, 2015.
“I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.”

Source : "Guest: Obama Advisor David Axelrod". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 2, 2012.

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