"Nothing puts things in perspective as quickly as a mountain."

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Source : Josephine Tey (2013). “The Daughter of Time”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

Josephine Tey

#Perspective Quotes #Mountain Quotes

“You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.”
“Problems come and go over time, and to understand why is a difficult historical task. If one wanted to find the origin of a problem, historical research and close attention to texts is what is needed, not unconstrained speculation about the 'pictures' that philosophers must be in the grip of.”
“How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a cupboard, and lie hidden in the cobwebs and dust, waiting to be cleaned out or rediscovered?”

Source : Amitav Ghosh (2005). “The hungry tide”
“Jonas Brothers fans are a force to be reckoned with”
“By the time the Deputy Minister presents a matter for decision to cabinet, he or she tends to present three options: ' the unacceptable', 'the politically courageous', and 'the bureaucrat-preferred' options. As such, it is usually best to get down into the department to the person doing the first drafts of any policy.”
“Nostalgias were peeled from it long ago.”

Source : Donald Justice (2009). “Collected Poems”, p.160, Knopf
“Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace.”
“One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.”

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