"It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot."

-- Edmond Francois Valentin About

#Country Quotes #Men Quotes #Information Quotes

“Ask yourself this question, will this matter a year from now?”

Source : Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company
“It's a wonderful feeling to experience a shift when you realize that you have the power to change the patterns within yourself.”
“When it gets difficult is often right before you succeed.”
“Couples should keep their love pure before it poisons the purest love of all - that between them and their children”

Source : "The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2003.
“[Vathek] has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even nasty. But Beckford could plead sufficient "local colour" for it, and a contrast, again almost Shakespearean, between the flickering farce atrocities of the beginning and the sombre magnificence of the end. Beckford's claims, in fact, rest on the half-score or even half-dozen pages towards the end: but these pages are hard to parallel in the later literature of prose fiction.”
“Justine reached for a fresh tissue and clamped it to Lucyâ€™s nose as if she was a child. â€œFriends are the support bras of life. We donâ€™t let each other down. Right?”
“Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.”

Source : Jim Harrison (2007). “Off to the Side: A Memoir”, p.6, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Obviously yeah, but our first album took us five years to put together, to get signed and to put it out, we had a lot of time to think about what we were doing. Black Sunday was like a whirl wind, we had to rush back to the studio after touring, but the last album we had a little longer, what like eight months?”

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