"Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for."

-- Mariella Frostrup

#True Friend Quotes #Giving Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“Silence is sorrow's best food.”
“Seven days without love makes one weak.”
“The popularity of the famous device of the use of lands into England is said to be largely due to the mendicant friars of the then new Orders of St. Dominic and St. Francis, who, arriving in this country, in the first half of the thirteenth century, found themselves hampered by their own vows of poverty, no less than by the growing feeling against Mortmain in acquiring the provision of land absolutely necessary for their rapidly developing work.”

Source : Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”
“It's hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it's like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn't go from one to the other.”
“You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ... it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.”
“What's been important with Flickr is the community that's been there from the beginning and the serious photographers that are there creating and sharing great content. If we lose that at some point then I think we have potential issues, but so far we've been able to do a really good job of maintaining that.”

Source : "Taking an open-minded approach". Interview with Jemima Kiss, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2009.
“I know I will never wear sandals now anywhere. I got in a fight in the back of a grocery store when I was really young, like 14 or something. And I remember my feet were so torn up afterwards because I lost my sandals in the middle of the fight. My toenail was missing. It just sucked.”
“The heavens are full of floating mysteries.”

Source : Thomas Buchanan Read (1855). “Poems by Thomas Buchanan Read”, p.246

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