"He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passing from him just as he needed it most."

-- E. M. Forster

#Action Quotes #Reason Quotes #Passing Quotes

“Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“How many times must hope die before tears were too deep to bear?”

Source : Jodi Thomas (1999). “To Kiss a Texan”, p.178, Penguin
“During the centuries-long process of Reformation and Enlightenment, Christian churches had to accept some things they didn't like. Islam will have to do the same; otherwise it isn't part of Europe.”

Source : "SPIEGEL Interview with Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble: 'We Have No Relationship to our Diverse Muslim Society'". Interview with Jan Fleischhauer and Holger Stark, www.spiegel.de. September 20, 2006.
“England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their trade as nowhere else in the western world. Despite our belief [that] we are a 'gentle' people we have, in reality, a cruel and callous streak in our sweet natures, reinforced by a decadent puritan strain which makes some of us believe that suffering, whether useful or not, is a fit scourge to the wanton soul.”

Source : "Out of the way: later essays".
“Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their history, experiencing the horrors of modern warfare on their own soil during World War II.”
“Everything contains its antithesis.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2007.
“He wanted to talk to them, if he could, to discover whether they had truths about life which he had never heard before. Here is what he hoped new truths might do for him: enable him to laugh at his troubles, to go on living, and to keep out of the North Wing of the Midland County General Hospital, which was for lunatics.”
“At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.”

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