I think it's because I don't know how the beginning of the year is going to go for me.

We are saddened by a bird's cry, but not a fish's blood; Blessed are those with voices. If those dolls had voices, I bet each and everyone would scream "I don't want to be a human." (Alternate translation from one of the dubbed versions)

Emancipation Proclamation

Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.

Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond, which originally made, and must still preserve the unity of the empire.

Job endured everything — until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

The whole wilderness seems to be alive and familiar, full of humanity. The very stones seem talkative, sympathetic, brotherly.

Vinod Khanna - Prajapati Pandey

The last two decades have seen a vigorous revival in the political and social movements of Islamic inspiration… The movements aiming at cultural emancipation, independence and identity run parallel to and intertwine with the political and economic struggles waged by the people of underdeveloped countries’ (Page 5)

Extortion, snortin', supportin' abortion
Pathological liar, blowin' shit out of proportion
The looniest, zaniest, spontaneous, sporadic
Impulsive thinker, compulsive drinker, addict
Half animal, half man

You wanna get anywhere in this world, Pat, you gotta play every card in the deck... and I'm playin' 'em all.

Theophrastus of Eresus... wrote a book On Winds and on Weather Signs, but like most other Greek philosophers, he was hardly the man to adopt patient and exact observation in place of dogmatic assertion and the teaching of authority.

The path you are following will not bring any benefit for the people. Instead you will lose public faith and confidence.

Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction.

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.