"I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friendâ€™s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents."

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Source : John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

John Knowles

#Parent Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“If I was going to play offense, I'd love to play running back. In high school I played quarterback and wide receiver, but I wouldn't mind running over some folks.”

Source : Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. December 16, 2003.
“Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.”
“If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.”
“Sometimes, people forget my record of fiscal conservatism on major issues in the state legislature. The greatest example is my voting against the pension borrowing scheme in 1997.”
“I've always been monogamous - [within it] I've been in love with people, but very platonically. For me, monogamous love is about learning how to be able to trust someone completely; so you need to be able to think you can trust them. But that doesn't mean you can't have extraordinary feelings for other people and not feel guilty about them, but not necessarily go and wreck marriages and consummate, and you don't have to do all that.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.”
“Whoa!!! I heard I offended one of my all time favorite artists Ray Price by my statement â€œNobody wants to listen to their grandpas music.”
“All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.”

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