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Thomas More: Will, I'd trust you with my life. But not your principles. You see, we speak of being anchored to our principles. But if the weather turns nasty you up with an anchor and let it down where there's less wind, and the fishing's better. And "Look," we say, "look, I'm anchored! To my principles! Robert Bolt
How the miracle of our meeting. Shone there and sang, I didn't want to return. From there to anywhere. Happiness instead of duty. Was bitter delight to me. Not obliged to speak to anyone, I spoke for a long while. Let passions stifle lovers, Demanding answers, We, my dear, are only souls. At the limits of the world. Anna Akhmatova
In the Green Machine there is no mercy; we make mercy, manufacture it in parts that have overgrown our basic reptile brain. There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us. Thomas Harris
Julien Green quote: "In growing older, we become our parents."
In growing older, we become our parents. Julien Green
To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Herman Hesse quote: "We all share the same origin, our mothers; all of us come in..."
We all share the same origin, our mothers; all of us come in at the same door. - from the preface to 'Demian Herman Hesse
Well. On which aspect of our ill-advised doings are we about to lecture each other? I have very little to say. As I recall, I exhausted the matter on several other occasions. Dorothy Dunnett
Edith Hamilton quote: "It is by our power to suffer, above all, that we are of more..."
It is by our power to suffer, above all, that we are of more value than the sparrows. Edith Hamilton
And let me tell you this: our higher senses are blunted. We are so drenched with material sin, that we should probably fail to recognize real wickedness if we encountered it Arthur Machen
Epictetus quote: "We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our..."
We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us. Epictetus
I suddenly understood that even love and caring weren't always enough. They were the concrete bricks of our relationship, but unstable without the mortar of time spent together, time without the threat of imminent separation hanging over us. Nicholas Sparks
... and she held out a pretty gold ring. 'Put it,' she said, 'on the fourth finger of my left hand, and I am yours and you are mine; and we shall leave Earth and make our own Heaven yonder.' Charlotte Bronte
...I didn't feel that I was an American at all, with all that suburban ideal and sex repression and general dreary newspaper grey censorship of all our real human values... Jack Kerouac
Why give up before we try Feel the lows before the highs Clip our wings before we fly away I can't say I came prepared I'm suspended in the air Won't you come be in the sky with me Alicia Keys
I wonder if it won't be the same with the children as it has been with us. No matter how long each one of them lives, won't their lives feel to them unfinished like ours, only just beginning? I wonder how far they will go. And then their children will grow up and it will be the same with them. Unfinished lives. Oh, dearie, what children all of us are. Ernest Poole

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