"After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams."

-- Judith McNaught

#Dream Quotes #Kingdoms Quotes #Given Quotes

“For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.”
“The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge.”
“To be energetic and firm where principle demands it, and tolerant in all else, is not easy. It is not easy to abhor wickedness, and oppose it with every energy, and at the same time to have the meekness and gentleness of Christ, becoming all things to all men for the truth's sake. The energy of patience, the most godlike of all, is not easy.”

Source : Mark Hopkins (1884). “Teachings and Counsels: Twenty Baccalaureate Sermons; with a Discourse on President Garfield”
“Once you were just insentient cells, no more aware of anything than your liver is now. Today you are brimming with consciousness. How did you make the grade? What catapulted you into consciousness? There must be some kind of natural process behind this astonishing leap, but this process is obscure.”
“The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland”
“Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of”
“I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear. Anybody who has a good shot has got to take it and keep taking it. So he misses...so what?”
“We can't say that we believe in each otherâ€™s fundamental humanity and then turn a blind eye to the reality of each others existence and the truth of each otherâ€™s hearts. We must be allies. And we must be allies in this business because to be represented is to be humanized. And as long as anyone, anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake and we are all vulnerable.”

Source : Kerry Washington's Acceptance Speech at the GLAAD Media Awards, www.vulture.com. March 22, 2015.

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