"silence is not weakness and decency is not pride"

-- Arthur Machen

#Pride Quotes #Silence Quotes #Weakness Quotes

“So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind of sadness you feel at the end of summer. When the fireflies are gone, the ponds have dried up and the plants are wilted, weary from being so green.”
“Service changes people. It refines, purifies, gives a finer perspective, and brings out the best in each one of us. It gets us looking outward instead of inward. Righteous service is the expression of true charity, such as the Savior showed.”
“Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.”
“. . . . I cannot escape my life but can only use my determination and courage to make it the best I can.”

Source : Karen Cushman (2012). “Catherine, Called Birdy”, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“A woman should live with two men; one more a lover and the other more a friend.”
“If he hadn't been my father I would have loved the spectacle he created-one performance following quickly upon another-like a versatile old vaudevil-lian with his audience (wife and children) in the palm of his hand.”
“Cheating is not an accident. It's a choice.”

Source : "Fictional character: Rafi". "A Secret Affair", www.imdb.com. 2012.
“In printmaking, I essentially use the same process as in painting with one important exception ... to try, with sensitivity to the medium to emphasize what printing can do best ... better than say, painting or collaging or watercolour or drawing or whatever ... Otherwise, the artist expresses the same vision in graphics that he does in his other work.”

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