"It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness..."

-- Abraham Lincoln

#Humble Quotes #Patriotic Quotes #Praying Quotes

“The Madcap Heiress, isn't that what the papers usually call her? Millions of dollars and no sense.”
“Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.”
“jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.”

Source : Penelope Gilliatt (1990). “To wit: skin and bones of comedy”, Scribner
“The stunt team were great on Defiance. They were there, every day.”

Source : "Stephanie Leonidas Talks DEFIANCE, What Drew Her to the Character, Her Knife Training, The Make-Up Process, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 20, 2013.
“It's only fashion that has said the pendulum has swung from extreme skepticism about extraterrestrial life to extreme credulity. The truth is somewhere in between.”
“If the Irish once find out that there are any circumstances in which they can get free government grants, we shall have a system of mendicancy [begging] such as the world never knew”. After a million had starved to death he stated “The great evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.”
“Coercion. The unpardonable crime.”

Source : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1938). “Pilgrimage”
“The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on.”

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