Upending Democracy Quotes

#1. This is what I knew: I was trapped in my body, in that bed, at that moment. But even as I looked out through the windows of my eyes, through the bars of my prison, I knew I wouldn't be trapped forever.

Michelle Hodkin

#2. Leaning on Him, make with reverent meekness His own thy will.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#3. I've battled my weight since I was 12. My parents took to us to New York once, for a holiday, and there I'd buy fruit loops from a 24x7 shop and sit down with my books. I never played; I wasn't that kind of kid - I just read. I ate chocolates like peanuts. I was 86kg till I was 19.

Sonam Kapoor

#4. How sweet, the presence of Jesus to the longing, harassed soul! It is instant peace, and balm to every wound.

Elizabeth Ann Seton

#5. To me glamour isn't about being sparkly.

Tori Amos

#6. The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

Colin Farrell

#7. The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live

Julius Nyerere

#8. Still ... in this world only winter is certain.

George R R Martin

#9. There are three characteristics of wisdom: knowledge, experience and patience.

Eraldo Banovac

#10. One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.

Horace

#11. My last name is Wellsley, but a lot of people say it's Lowendowski, which is my mother's last name, and I had it changed to my father's when I was 18.

Cory Wells

#12. They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!

Tennessee Williams

#13. Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there.

Peter Thomas Bauer

#14. ... Some people, under a nervous and self-effacing manner, conceal a great deal of vanity and self-satisfaction.

Agatha Christie