quotes about Serious Illness

“Sampling out corruption is a very tough job, but I say so in all seriousness that we would be failing in our duty if we do not tackle this problem seriously and with determination.”

“America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.”

Source : "Pat Buchanan Thinks You Should Be More Thankful For Slavery, Barry Obama". The Jezebel Interview, jezebel.com. March 24, 2008.

“We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.”

“Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.”

“Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until it be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death.”

“You can expand your reality by developing new ways of perceiving.”

“My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention....”

Source : Ellen J. Langer (1989). “Mindfulness”, Da Capo Press

“No, when the fight begins within himself, / A man's worth something.”

“I struggled to stay on the pace there in the back half. But, at the end of the day I wanted to win this race. The Millrose is a prestigious event and it's definitely something I wanted to do in my career.”

“The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation”