"We all owe each other concessions of taste and opinion for the sake of family peace and affection ..."

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Source : Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters of Eugénie de Guérin”, p.206

Eugenie de Guerin

#Family Quotes #Sake Quotes #Taste Quotes

“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”

Source : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (2008). “The Real Life of Sebastian Knight”, p.105, New Directions Publishing
“If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents.”

Source : "House Passes Flag-Burning Amendment". www.foxnews.com. June 23, 2005.
“For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.”
“I'm easily starstruck. Seeing Buster Posey or any actor, anyone at a restaurant, for me I get really starstruck, so just trying to calm myself down and say, "This is where I belong. This is what I've prepared my whole life to be doing."”
“Today I want to belong. I want to feel safe and at home. I want to be aware of what it is like simply to be, without defenses or desires. I will appreciate the flow of life for what it is-my own true self. I will notice those moments of intimacy with myself, when I feel that â€œI amâ€ is enough to sustain me forever. I will lie on the grass at one with nature, expanding until my being fades into the infinite.”
“Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.”

Source : "How to Seek Heroism in Demands" by Grande Lum, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2009.
“Whatever will bring in the most money will happen.”
“My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.”

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