"It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society."

-- Gideon Welles

#Government Quotes #Vain Quotes #Wells Quotes

“Some days I think she was really miserable, because she cried a lot. In a way, I'd had to steel my heart to her crying. You need to steel yourself to a lot of things when someone in your family is really sick.”

Source : Cynthia Kadohata (2008). “Kira-Kira”, p.172, Simon and Schuster
“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.”

Source : Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.327, Penguin
“I can be dramatic. I can be funny. I can be sexy. I can be sad. I can be glad.”
“That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.”
“I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song.”
“If you're going to commit to that, you're going to have to find some way to make it bearable and enjoyable.”
“If we can hump dead animals and antelopes, there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope.”
“Look at that wonderful moonlight. It makes me long for the time when I can return home.”

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