"It amazes me when I hear any person prefer blindness to deafness. Such a person must have a terrible dread of being alone. Blindness makes one totally dependent on others, and deprives us of every satisfaction that results from light."

-- Horace Walpole

#Light Quotes #Satisfaction Quotes #Deafness Quotes

“The best thing to do is try and make sure you're getting something at your end. We had stretches where we didn't get that.”
“Did you ever figure to be living in a time when your check is good, but the bank bounces?”
“There are hours when the Church must say NO to those who should ask communion with her, in the doing of her work, upon the basis of compromise.”
“I think you have to start taking a few risks and sometimes they don't pay off.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller.”

Source : Erskine Caldwell (1988). “Conversations with Erskine Caldwell”, p.51, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Feminism is not a fad. It's not like Angry Birds. Although it does involve a lot of angry birds. Bad example.”
“Watch Darren Daulton use his mitt like a glove.”
“I have very human responses to things, so I had to learn to just be still.”

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