"What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance."

-- Jane Austen

#Summer Quotes #Rainy Day Quotes #August Quotes

“If there is always light, you donâ€™t experience light anymore. You have to have the rhythm of light and darkness.”
“Meryl Streep is awesome.”
“TV show is always challenging. It's challenging when you have all of the time and money in the world, and it's more challenging when you have less money.”
“The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.”

Source : Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.165, Routledge
“Switzerland still has a huge share of the watch market, all advertised at the airport on illuminated hoardings. Gosh, they are ugly.”
“When I left England, my hope of India's conversion was very strong; but amongst so many obstacles, it would die, unless upheld by God. Well, I have God, and His Word is true. Though the superstitions of the heathen were a thousand times stronger than they are, and the example of the Europeans a thousand times worse; though I were deserted by all and persecuted by all, yet my faith, fixed on the sure Word, would rise above all obstructions and overcome every trial. God's cause will triumph. (William Carey, quoted in Iain Murray, The Puritan Hope, Banner of Truth 1971, p 140.)”
“We can teach only if we are willing to learn.”
“I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point.”

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