"We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends."

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P. D. James

#War Quotes #Forgiving Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.”
“Itâ€™s easier to follow fashion than it is to have personal style.”
“I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and miracle of nature. You just have to get rid of so much baggage to be light enough to dance, to sing, to play. You don't have time to carry grudges; you don't have time to cling to the need to be right.”
“The Japanese are hard to understand, but once you do the world is your oyster.”
“Hockey is our big sport, and if you fight in hockey you get five minutes for it, that's it. So in Canada, everyone is fighting.”

Source : "Five Minutes With Jeremy Hotz". Interview with Rick Chand, deadspin.com. May 2, 2007.
“In our culture of constant access and nonstop media, nothing feels more like a curse from God than time in the wilderness. To be obscure, to be off the beaten path, to be in the wilderness feels like abandonment. It seems more like exile than a vacation. To be so far off of everyoneâ€™s radar that the world might forget about us for a while? Thatâ€™s almost akin to deathâ€¦[But] far from being punishment, judgment, or a curse, the wilderness is a gift. Itâ€™s where we can experience the primal delight of being fully known and delighted in by God.”
“When you meet a man, don't you always idly wonder what he'd be like in bed? I do.”
“writing, like living, is lonely work.”

Source : Blanche Willis Howard (1900). “The Garden of Eden”

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