"It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!"

-- Derek Jacobi

#People Quotes #Safety Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.”
“It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function in Athens for over nine hundred years.”
“It doesn't bother me at all that some people think I am too outspoken.”

Source : "Jenni Rivera, Mexican-American Singer, Dies at 43" by Larry Rohter, www.nytimes.com. December 10, 2012.
“It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.”
“If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.”
“I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.”

Source : Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Silent in the Grave”, p.159, MIRA
“She felt, as she felt so often with Murphy, spattered with words that went dead as soon as they sounded; each word obliterated, before it had time to make sense, by the word that came next; so that in the end she did not know what had been said. It was like difficult music heard for the first time.”
“We're saying this to both countries: We want a two-state solution. We want a Jewish state of Israel and alongside a independent Palestinian state. Unilateral measures are not helping at all to bring about this cause, and we agree that we wish to cooperate very closely on this, because as we both say, time is of the essence.”

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