"I have rarely read a more wonderful book than To Win Her Favor by Tamera Alexander. Rich with historical detail and fully developed characters, this novel held me spellbound until the last page. If you read one historical novel this year, make it To Win Her Favor. It will linger with you long after the last page."

-- Colleen Coble

#Book Quotes #Character Quotes #Winning Quotes

“Jeremy Renner is an incredible actor.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.”

Source : "The Tweaker" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. November 14, 2011.
“Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.”
“The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart! The steeper the road, the faster it rises towards ever wider horizons.”
“It feels intimate and life affirming to me when someone tweets things that appear to just be insane thoughts they had and typed out then tweeted immediately, with little or no regard for how others might perceive them, simply because they were in a state of emotional desperation and felt like they didn't want to express those thoughts to anyone else.”

Source : Source: logger.believermag.com
“I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO wings - an "MO" is a "Mental Observation" inmate - from Rikers Island, to be set up in mental health institutions. You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.”
“What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.”

Source : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 27, 2011.

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