"It is not the ctitic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

~Theodore Roosevelt

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Quote on Twilight

As I am a procrastinator, I have spent the last several hours working on my Twilight essay. As I wrote before, I am discussing the messages the books send teenage girls about love and fairytale lives. It isn't going quite the way I expected but I believe a rough draft is just about getting everything out and I quite enjoy editing. There is one quote I would like to share. This comes from a book called Touched by a Vampire by Beth Felker Jones.

"No real man is a marble statue of perfection. What's more, no real man should be. Part of the fun of loving someone is in loving him flaws and all. A perfect marble statue can't cry with you, or share your weakness for potato chips, or allow you to see if he is struggling or afraid."
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