"Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful ..."

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Source : Rumer Godden (2011). “The Greengage Summer”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

Rumer Godden

#People Quotes #Hurtful Quotes #Three Quotes

“Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.”
“A bulldog can whip a skunk, but sometimes it's not worth it.”
“If youâ€™ve got to think about it you probably shouldnâ€™t do it”
“Because the thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it.”

Source : Lisa Scottoline (2009). “Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman”, p.285, Macmillan
“We have a number of brothers left in the prisons, about 15 of them. And for the most part, they're in bad condition. Most of us are getting older, you know. I believe all of them is 60 years or older. They've been in prison for long periods of time. Many of them should have never been in prison at all. They were framed and illegally convicted.”
“The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.”

Source : Charles Williams (2016). “Essential Writings in Spirituality and Theology”, p.86, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“There is a time in science when it's too early to attack a problem. The stuff has to bubble a bit more and you have to be able to have the foundation on which to stand.”
“Live while you live, then die and be done with.”

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