"Things on the whole are faster in America; people don't stand for election, they run for office. If a person says he's sick, it doesn't mean regurgitating, it means ill. Mad means angry, not insane. Don't ask for the left-luggage; it's called a checkroom."

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Source : Jessica Mitford (2016). “Hons and Rebels: Hons & Rebels”, p.141, Hachette UK

Jessica Mitford

#Running Quotes #Mean Quotes #America Quotes

“Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.”
“Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.”
“After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.”
“He was tall as a young tree, lithe, immensely strong, able swiftly to draw a great war-bow and shoot down a NazgÃ»l, endowed with the tremendous vitality of Elvish bodies, so hard and resistant to hurt that he went only in light shoes over rock or through snow, the most tireless of all the Fellowship.”
“Testing is not the point. The point is about responsibility.”
“Long as I live Long as I breathe With every heartbeat I'll need you near me”

Source : Song: Long As I Live, Album: John Michael Montgomery
“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.”
“The seriousness of my situation started to sink in, and again I fought panic. I pushed it down, but it was harder this time, like my insides were an open can of shaken soda and I was trying to keep it from bubbling up out of the top.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.160, Thomas Nelson Inc

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