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“It is difficult, almost impossible, to find the book from which something either valuable or amusing may not be found, if the proper alembic be applied.”
Source : John Hill Burton (1862). “The Book-hunter, Etc”, p.141, Edinburgh : S. Blackwood
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“It's okay to have faith in something that you can't see or touch.”
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“Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.”
Source : Joshua Slocum (2007). “Sailing Alone: Around the World”, p.184, ReadHowYouWant.com
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“It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was the global overthrow of capitalism, was to save its antagonist, both in war and in peace - that is to say, by providing it with the incentive, fear, to reform itself after the Second World War, and, by establishing the popularity of economic planning, furnishing it with some of the procedures for its reform”
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“She thought about how it was so simple with animals. They gave their hearts without question or fear. They had no expectations. They were so easy to love. If people could only be like that, no one would ever be hurt, she thought. No one would ever need to learn how to forgive.”
Source : Elizabeth George (2007). “A Suitable Vengeance”, p.446, Bantam
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“FACTS Fact #1 Mean people suck. Fact #2 Bad things happen to good people. Fact #3 Good doesn’t always prevail over evil.”
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“Having said that, people here [in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania] watch the TV. And they hear critics of her policies talk about how more than a million people coming here last year from various war-torn countries and also seeking economic help are going to, like, destroy the fabric of the society.”
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“It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.”
