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Hers was the perfect love that dwells on the other's happiness, and not on its own. She knew that, though for the time being he would find bliss and oblivion in her arms, he would soon repine in inactivity whilst others fought for that which he held sublime. Baroness Orczy
Ron Reagan quote: "We can choose between the future and the past, between reason..."
We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology. Ron Reagan
William Shakespeare quote: "Good wombs have borne bad sons."-- (Miranda, I:2)"
Good wombs have borne bad sons."-- (Miranda, I:2) William Shakespeare
To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope. Jack Layton
Isaac Hanson quote: "There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the..."
There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one. Isaac Hanson
One has the choice of two views: either that the novel, along with printed-word culture in general, is moribund, or that there is something sadly shallow and blinded in our age. I know which view I hold; and the people who astound me are the ones who are sure that the first view is true. If you want omniscience, you have it there, and it ought to worry yo? you the reader who is neither critic nor write? that this omniscient contempt for print is found so widely among people who make a living... John Fowles
Groucho Marx quote: "The only real laughter comes from despair."
The only real laughter comes from despair. Groucho Marx
Maynard James Keenan quote: "I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to..."
I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something. Maynard James Keenan
Hal Sparks quote: "Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of..."
Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions. Hal Sparks
Catherine- "How I hate the sight of an umbrella!"Mrs. Allen- "They are disagreeable things to carry. I would much rather take a chair at any time. Jane Austen
I think it was Lessing who once said, 'There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose'. An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behaviour". Viktor E. Frankl
Woody Harrelson quote: "Well for six years during Cheers I couldn't get another job."
Well for six years during Cheers I couldn't get another job. Woody Harrelson
Oscar Wilde quote: "She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was..."
She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. Oscar Wilde
Voltaire quote: "He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first."
He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first. Voltaire
They became desperate for an antidote, such as coziness & color. They tried to bury the obligatory white sofas under Thai-silk throw pillows of every rebellious, iridescent shade of Magenta, pink, and tropical green imaginable. But the architect returned, as he always does, like the conscience of a Calvinist, and he lectured them and hectored them and chucked the shimmering little sweet things out. Tom Wolfe