"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."

-- Orson Scott Card

#Parenting Quotes #Silence Quotes #Prized Possessions Quotes

“The familiarities of the gaming-table contribute very much to the decay of politeness ... The pouts and quarrels that naturally arise from disputes must put an end to all complaisance, or even good will towards one another.”
“The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.”
“Day and night my thoughts incline To the blandishments of wine, Jars were made to drain, I think; Wine, I know, was made to drink.”

Source : Richard Henry Stoddard (1871). “The Book of the East: And Other Poems”, p.213
“Iâ€™m glad the UFC wanted to work with me as well, and I think that they trust that Iâ€™ll never make them look bad. You never have to worry about me with a DWI or doing something crazy”
“She always imagined that evil played out on a large canvas- wars, concentration camps, gas chambers, the partitioning of nations. Now she realized that evil had a domestic side, and its very banality protected it from exposure.”
“In the century now dawning, spirituality, visionary consciousness, and the ability to build and mend human relationships will be more important for the fate and safety of this nation than our capacity to forcefully subdue an enemy. Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.”
“Afflictions, like bills and pikes, make a terrible show when they cannot reach us; but the temptations of prosperity, like unseen bullets, wound and kill us before they are discerned.”
“Lying's a certain mark of cowardice.”

Source : John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, John Brown (1792). “British Theatre: Isabella, or, The fatal marriage”, p.104

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