"My arm was extended upward pleading for peace and the Union of our Fathers. When my hand came down, it fell slowly and sadly by the side of a Secessionist."

-- Zebulon Baird Vance

#War Quotes #Father Quotes #Hands Quotes

“I jotted down Oslo After Death. This would be a great title for a book, I thought. That is what I do sometimes. I jot down titles for books that I one day intend to write.”

Source : John Corey Whaley (2012). “Where Things Come Back”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
“Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.”
“To notice people's deceptions yet not reveal it in words, to bear people's insults without showing any change of attitude-there is endless meaning in this, and also endless function.”
“Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.”
“The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.”

Source : Aristotle, Gilbert Murray (1920). “On the Art of Poetry”, p.20, Oxford University Press on Demand
“Horses (thou say'st) and ***** men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy; But wives, a random choice, untried they take; They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake; Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day.”
“I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy.”
“It's hard for us to talk about how we disdain file-sharing when in fact it probably has been a great resource for us.”

Source : "The Decemberists' Colin Meloy". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. February 14, 2011.

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