Heartening Def Quotes

#1. I hated being volunteered. The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#2. The terrifying breakdown of social cohesion in the American city, in spite of intense institutionalized police surveillance equipped with every sophisticated aid to public control, illustrates that social behaviour depends upon mutual responsibility rather than upon the policeman.

Colin Ward

#3. Herbert Hoover versus Al Smith in 1928 was one of the dirtiest elections in American history.

Joseph Cummins

#4. This is going to be a lot for the Congress to swallow, even on the deck of a sinking ship.

Kenneth Eade

#5. Any time, every time, you can damn the Prime Minister and so long as it is not a lie and a criminal lie, nothing happens to you. You can say a lot of things. You can write books about him, damning him. So long as it is not a libel, go ahead.

Lee Kuan Yew

#6. One doesn't go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. --Tzivia Khalon

Ronie Kendig

#7. At the time I was only twenty-four. My life was even then gloomy, ill-regulated, and as solitary as that of a savage. I made friends with no one and positively avoided talking, and buried myself more and more in my hole.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. J.R.R. Tolkien told a questioning correspondent, life's purpose is to know, praise, and thank God.

Philip Zaleski

#9. Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

James Russell Lowell

#10. The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions.

David Hume

#11. No civilization can thrive or survive if it refuses to adapt or change.

Debasish Mridha