"The most terrible things end, at last."

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Source : James Theodore Bent (1885). “The Cyclades: Or, Life Among the Insular Greeks”, London, Longmans

James Theodore Bent

#Lasts Quotes #Ends Quotes #Terrible Quotes

“Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.”
“Business can constitute an enormous force for goodness in society. Through its commitments to corporate citizenship and to the principles of the UNGC, the global business community can continue to create and deliver value to society.”

Source : Speech at the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit, at the Palais de Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, July 05, 2007.
“I don't want to be known just as 'Carrot Top.' I don't always want to be this crazy, goofy guy.”
“Men are good but women are magic.”
“Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.”
“Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.”
“I don't believe there's more than one human man or woman in a thousand who can think internationally, and until the majority can I don't see any hope of lasting peace.”

Source : Sylvia Thompson (1926). “The Hounds of Spring”, Boston : Little, Brown
“Only in Russia poetry is respected--it gets people killed.”

Source : "Hope Against Hope: A Memoir". Book by Nadezhda Mandelstam (Chapter 35), 1970.

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