"So many people in this country have a dual loyalty. They have loyalty to America, but they also are determined to have their parade up Fifth Avenue once a year... a Cuban parade or a Puerto Rican parade - many other countries. So they really don't forget."

-- Tom Wolfe

#Loyalty Quotes #Country Quotes #Years Quotes

“If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody's supposed to respect you?”
“Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!”
“Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.”
“You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it looks convincingly clear, too clear. And meanwhile, where are you? Not on the clear surface of your ideas, but you have already sunk deeper, into darker regions, so that one only thinks one has been given all your thoughts, one only imagines you have emptied yourself in that clarity. But there are layers and layers -- you're bottomless, unfathomable. Your clearness is deceptive. You are the thinker who arouses most confusion in me, most doubt, most disturbance.”
“Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.”

Source : H. Rider Haggard (2015). “She”, p.281, Sheba Blake Publishing
“There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Freakishness could happen to anyone at any time.”

Source : Cammie McGovern (2014). “Say What You Will”, p.11, Harper Collins
“I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.”

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