"Oh I'm sure you're right,' Auntie said. 'Probably she's just as you say. But she looks to me like a very clever girl, and adaptable; you can see that from the shape of her ears."
Arthur Golden
"Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say."
Jonathan Sacks
"I was reaching for one of the handles when I heard Heidler’s voice from behind me. ‘It would not be wise to enter. It is a bad time to disturb the dead."
Micheal Rivers
"The first casualty when war comes is truth."
Hiram Johnson
"...There was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have."
Robin Hobb
"And she did what nobody thought of doing... She consulted Anne."
Jane Austen
"The differences between women are all cosmetic."
Ljupka Cvetanova
"Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave."
David McCullough
"Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objects and principles."
Jawaharlal Nehru
"The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect."
John Updike
"The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter."
Mark Twain
"A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me."
Charles Kuralt
"Within us all are sages, warriors and fools; we more often that not choose the fools."
rassool jibraeel snyman
"Where books had been a comfort before, they became a necessity, old books best of all: thick heavy tomes with stories that spread and twisted through other worlds, where he could walk like a ghost in the footsteps of other lives."
Alexia Casale
"Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent."
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