“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.”
― Isadora Speaks: Uncollected Writings and Speeches of Isadora Duncan
― Isadora Speaks: Uncollected Writings and Speeches of Isadora Duncan
“I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the hell? Anybody who wanders around the world saying, "Hell yes, I'm from Texas," deserves whatever happens to him.”
― The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
― The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
“Our world has created a false unrealistic image of what women are supposed to look like and act like. But the truth is that every woman was not created by God to be skinny, with a flawless complexion and long flowing hair. Not every woman was intended to juggle a career as well as all of the other duties of being a wife, mother, citizen, and daughter. Single women should not be made to feel they are missing somenthing because they are not married. Married women should not be made to feel they must have a career to be complete. We must have the freedom to be our individual selves.”
― The Confident Woman Devotional: 365 Daily Inspirations
― The Confident Woman Devotional: 365 Daily Inspirations
“His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.”
― Seabiscuit: An American Legend
― Seabiscuit: An American Legend
“Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.”
― Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
― Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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