"Stay here til I come to fetch you." I no longer recognize you in the Republic of Joy," I loftily informed him. "Our diplomatic ties are severed." Unsever them," he growled, "or the Country of Raphael will be forced to declare your republic a protectorate." Dictator," I muttered. For life," he agreed."

-- Katie MacAlister

#Country Quotes #Ties Quotes #Joy Quotes

“My thoughts, I guess, are bitter: who but the bitter have thoughts?”
“Professor Brown: 'Since this slide was made,' he opined, 'My students have re-examined the errant points and I am happy to report that all fall close to the [straight] line.' Questioner: 'Professor Brown, I am delighted that the points which fell off the line proved, on reinvestigation, to be in compliance. I wonder, however, if you have had your students reinvestigate all these points that previously fell on the line to find out how many no longer do so?'”
“I feel like I am always searching for my purpose. I'm always wondering what that is.”
“I'm an artist by trade and an author by necessity.”

Source : "In-depth Written Interview". TeachingBooks Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. September 7, 2010.
“Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.”

Source : 'Night' (1761) l. 311
“The talk of sheltering woman from the fierce storms of life is the sheerest mockery, for they beat on her from every point of thecompass, just as they do on man, and with more fatal results, for he has been trained to protect himself, to resist, to conquer.”
“Pray that thy last days, and last works may be the best; and that when thou comest to die, thou mayest have nothing else to do but die.”
“Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.”

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