"I'm not comfortable holidaying in other people's poverty."

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Source : Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

Beth Orton

#People Quotes #Poverty Quotes #Comfortable Quotes

“A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 272-73, De Rebus Gestis Alexandria Magni, VI, 3, 11, 1922.
“It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.”

Source : Zoë Akins (1923). “Déclassée: Daddy's gone a-hunting; and Greatness - a comedy ...”
“Life is not a tour of gas stations.”
“Mom said that people are interested in birds only in as much as they exhibit human behavior - greed and stupidity and anger - and by doing so they free us from the unique sorrow of being human...I told Mom my own theory of why we like birds - of how birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.”
“I love the Wikipedia link chain because it has led me into some strange articles. Wikipedia is one of my favorites.”
“The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a relentless extrapolation from today even as it overwhelms with unexpected consequences of that extrapolation.”
“I have to have a daily, vibrant relationship with Jesus in order to survive that process toward healing.”
“Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.”

Source : 1968 Forty Years On (published1969), act 2.

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