"Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people ."

-- Jefferson Davis

#Long Quotes #People Quotes #Justice Quotes

“He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.”
“My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.”
“Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.”
“You'd have thought that after suffering such a loss nothing else would matter to her but that didn't seem to be how it worked. She was fearful about everything now. It was as if she had finally seen the awful power of fate, it's deviousness, the way it could wipe out in an instant the one thing you had been certain you could rely on, and now she was constantly looking over her shoulder, trying to work out where the next blow might fall.”
“Christianity was neither original nor unique, but that the roots of much of the Judeo/ Christian tradition lay in the prevailing Kamite (ancient Egyptian) culture of the region. We are faced with the inescapable realization that if Jesus had been able to read the documents of old Egypt, he would have been amazed to find his own biography already substantially written some four or five thousand years previously.”
“It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.”

Source : Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria
“I believe because I am told to believe ... My faith is faith; it is not evolved out of argumentation, nor does it seek the aid of that.”
“I spy, with my little eye, something that starts with ... G." "Sausages.”

Source : Adam Rex (2013). “The True Meaning of Smekday”, p.73, A&C Black

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