Robert Purvis Quotes

#1. So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.

Mia Love

#2. One who believes all of a book would be better off without books

Mencius

#3. Life has a funny way of creating it's own tests. It throws curve balls that make you do and think and feel things that are in direct conflict with what you had planned and don't allow you to operate in terms of black and white.

K.A. Tucker

#4. I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.

Robert Purvis

#5. If I've vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.

Rick Atkinson

#6. The one thing that I realize - well, not the one thing, but it was a big thing - having in my head that I need to get healthier. It's been a very gradual process for me.

Octavia Spencer

#7. I am proud to be an American Citizen.

Robert Purvis

#8. It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.

Robert Purvis

#9. A man's final query is determined by how well he acts under pressure. If man can control his demeanor under extreme stress, he will be judged in a positive way.

Angela Khristin Brown

#10. The practice of perseverance is the discipline of the noblest virtues. To run well, we must run to the end. It is not the fighting but the' conquering that gives a hero his title to renown.

Elias Lyman Magoon

#11. The poet is rather one who inspires than one inspired.

Paul Eluard

#12. Meditation is the direct means of enjoying the greatest happiness and is the only means to quench the thirst for happiness on earth.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#13. To make me believe that those men who have regulated education in our country have humanity in their hearts is to make me believe a lie.

Robert Purvis

#14. It's much more acceptable for men to work and father kids. There's an inherent inequality, because we want to do it all, and I don't know how we can do this all.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#15. Never attempt to accelerate your progress

Doug Hepburn

#16. What a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave trade, contained in different school books, have been lost sight of, or been subject to the pruning knife of the slaveholding expurgatorial system!

Robert Purvis

#17. I just think that's the job of an actor. I guess that's the variation that you're talking about. It's probably a byproduct of just constantly looking for something different, because that's what I feel like I'm supposed to do.

Eric Bana