"You can't expect people to give you the things you love, unless you know how to ask."

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Source : Genevieve Valentine (2015). “The Girls at the Kingfisher Club: A Novel”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

Genevieve Valentine

#People Quotes #Giving Quotes #Things You Love Quotes

“Quite a crowd tonight, Gin. Usually, it's just you and Finn." I shrugged. "What can I say? I seem to attract minions wherever I go these days. Kind of like the Pied Piper." Behind me, Finn huffed out his displeasure. "Minion? I am most certainly not a mere minion. Head minion, perhaps. At the very least.”
“I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size.”
“There's people that are just in awe of what you do, and then there are people who just think it's garbage. And I think there are people who are just uncomfortable seeing someone have fun with their job”
“The huge majority of philosophers seem to think that including impure properties in the range of the quantifiers of the principle would make the principle trivial. I have argued that it does not.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Frustration is the wet nurse of violence.”

Source : David Abrahamsen (1973). “The murdering mind”, Harpercollins
“I think there's a pride of what a real American can be. I mean, I'm a transplant, but I've got American kids and an American wife, and when I go back to England I feel more like an American, the way I look at the world, is more from an American perspective at this point. I've traveled every state 30 or 40 times, and have met an amazing array of people, and I have found Americans to be among the most kind and tolerant people I have ever met.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“The Germans may take Paris, but that will not prevent me from going on with the war. We will fight on the Loire, we will fight on the Garronne, we will fight even in the Pyrenees. And if at last we are driven off the Pyrenees, we will continue the war at sea.”

Source : Quoted in J. Hampden Jackson, Clemenceau and the Third Republic (1946)
“Never put anything past anyone. Stop expecting people to be as genuine as you are, it's never the case & it will almost always be a let down.”

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