-
“I was born and raised in the Bay Area. It's the place I got a deep, deep affection for.”
-
“Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves.”
Source : Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick (2008). “The Love Dare”, p.11, B&H Publishing Group
-
“To err is human, but it feels divine.”
-
“Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.”
Source : Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.67
-
“He was quiet. I said nothing, hoping that maybe, for once, he'd stop pretenting he was okay. Then I could, too. That we could both forget the roles that had so long bound us.”
-
“Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.”
Source : Tony Judt (2010). “The Memory Chalet”, p.96, Penguin
-
“One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.”
-
“If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.”
-
“To be fired for my faith would be a greater honor than to be fired because we didn't win enough games.”
-
“I think the technology today is so much more advanced that it gives kids a lot more freedom... Back then it was a lot different.”
