"I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease."

-- Alan Cumming

#Ease Quotes #Stranger Quotes #Feels Quotes

“I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.”
“The flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea at Acre is not similar to the flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea in Spain.”
“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”

Source : Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.53, Dial Press
“Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would ever have been given if men had not seen the stars or the sun or the heavens. But as it is, the vision of day and night and of months and circling years has created the art of number and has given us not only the notion of Time but also means of research into the nature of the Universe. From these we have procured Philosophy in all its range, than which no greater boon ever has come or will come, by divine bestowal, unto the race of mortals.”
“Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.”
“There are lots of actors out there who are hugely, hugely talented and haven't got the breaks I've had.”
“We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.”
“My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one.”

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