"Clearly, if Confederation is to survive another 100 years, Canada must find a national esprit de corps. Cohesion cannot depend indefinitely on hating Toronto."

-- Eric Nicol

#Hate Quotes #Years Quotes #Toronto Quotes

“I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is history. I think, for example, the reason that I was perhaps able to see sooner than some others that the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe was decaying--if not disintegrating--was that I came to it through history and through Germany, rather than through Sovietology and through Moscow. And therefore the starting point was that no empire in history has lasted forever, and this one won't either.”
“I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed”
“Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.”

Source : "Hardball" Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. May 5, 2005.
“Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever surprises are coming next.”
“Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.”
“Perseverance is my motto.”
“Because the golden egg gleamed in my basket once, though my childhood became an immense sheet of darkening water I was Noah, and I was his ark, and there were two of every animal inside me”

Source : Mark Doty (2012). “Paragon Park: Turtle Swan, Bethlehem in Broad Daylight, Early Poems”, p.100, David R. Godine Publisher
“Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.”

Source : Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.295, Penguin

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