"How can I give you nothing? Do you seriously expect me to buy nothing, wrap up nothing, stick a gift tag on nothing, send a card saying I really hope you like your nothing and lie awake worrying that the nothing I got you was the right color nothing you always anted? Have a heart!"

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Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Hilary McKay

#Lying Quotes #Heart Quotes #Color Quotes

“If the people at the top think that reaching for a gun will solve the problem, why shouldn't the people at the bottom think the same?”
“Oh, darling, you will be good to me, wonâ€™t you? Because weâ€™re going to have a strange life.”
“And were in the middle of a perfect storm. These days, government social services are being bad-mouthed and defunded. The non-profit world is looking more and more like the for-profit world. The growing gap between rich and poor makes most of us very anxious about where we stand.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“PATRIOTISM, n. 1) The inability to distinguish between the government and one's 'country'; 2) A highly praiseworthy virtue characterized by the desire to dominate and kill; 3) A feeling of exultation experienced when contemplating heaps of charred 'enemy' corpses; 4) The first, last, and perennial refuge of scoundrels.”

Source : Chaz Bufe (2014). “Provocations: Don't Call Them Libertarians, AA Lies, and Other Incitements”, p.168, See Sharp Press
“If you get invited to be part of a team, don't look at it as a burden to get out of, but rather an opportunity to inspire, invigorate, and bring life to the team.”
“The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards.”
“If you think reading a book is hard, you should try writing one. Because it's even harder. It's still not as hard as writing a game, though. If you discount the purely visual pop-up parts, a book is made almost entirely of words. As a novelist, you just need to think of a few decent strings of words and then fill the other 98% of the book with more or less random descriptions of things and exclamation points.”
“For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”

Source : Edmund Spenser, Abraham Stoll (2006). “The Faerie Queene, Book Five”, p.28, Hackett Publishing

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