"A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship."

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Source : Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”

Charles Buxton

#Party Quotes #Too Much Quotes #Companionship Quotes

“Itâ€™s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.”
“So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.”
“If someone is identifying themselves based on their orientation toward a person of the same gender, then that seems to me to be a self-evident disorder.”
“All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.”
“When one must sit with the snobs, one belongs with the frightened.”
“Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.”
“Few stories are written about what happens to the princess after the wedding. Reading between the lines of other stories, we can sketch out her "happily ever after": The princess gets pregnant and hopes for sons. As long as she is faithful and bears sons, she is considered to be a good wife. We don't hear whether or not she's a good mother, unless something goes wrong with her children.... All of history has been written about the subsequent adventures in the chapters of his life.”

Source : Elizabeth Debold, Marie C. Wilson, Idelisse Malavé (1993). “Mother daughter revolution: from betrayal to power”, Da Capo Press
“This is the residue of sin on planet earth. Things are broken. People are hurting. The night is here. Darkness is upon us. Yet shining in the night is a Savior, and He has come to shine on you.”

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