"We complain and complain, but we have lived and seen the blossom -apple, pear, cherry, plum, almond blossom - in the sun; and the best among us cannot pretend they deserve - or could contrive - anything better."

-- J. B. Priestley

#Apples Quotes #Tree Quotes #Complaining Quotes

“I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima - and you know, is the price worth it?”
“It's okay for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly.”
“The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are.”
“Ajax the great Himself a host.”
“I wanted folks who glibly compared someone else to Hitler or to Nazis to think a bit harder about the Holocaust.”
“The central purpose of the Work that Reconnects is to help people uncover and experience their innate connections with each other and with the systemic, self-healing powers of the web of life, so that they may be enlivened and motivated to play their part in creating a sustainable civilization.”
“The record rainfall and storm surges that have brought flooding across the UK are a clear sign that we are already experiencing the impacts of climate change.”
“Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set free from family, church, town, class, guild; yet they wear, instead, the chains of the state, and they expire of ennui or stifling lone lines.”

Source : Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.488, Regnery Publishing

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