"The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture."

-- George Eliot

#Culture Quotes #Opinion Quotes #Obstacles Quotes

“I have spent a good many years sinceâ€•too many, I thinkâ€•being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.”
“I feel good. I think everything went good.”

Source : Hal Sutton during The Ryder Cup Press Conference, www.asapsports.com. September 18, 2004.
“Most people probably assume that Hristo is a grumpy, stubborn guy... That can't be further from the truth. He's a cheerful, candid person that never holds a grudge.”
“We value love not because it's stronger than death but because it's weaker. Say what you want about love: death will finish it. You will not go on loving in the grave, not in any physical way that will at all resemble love as we know it on earth. The perishable nature of love is what gives love its importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.”
“To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.”

Source : Abraham Kuyper (2007). “The Work of the Holy Spirit”, p.78, Cosimo, Inc.
“Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive, and skilful. And best of all, it keeps them off the street.”
“There is no tradition more worth of envy, no institution worthy of such loyalty, as the University of Georgia.”
“The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.”

Source : William Dampier (1703). “A New Voyage Round the World”, p.21

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