"Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know"

-- Kenneth Grahame

#Cities Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“North Korea will never give up its arsenal. It's all that is keeping us alive. Look at Saddam Hussein - and we never forget that North Korea was named as part of the "axis of evil" a year before the United States invaded Iraq. Do you think we would be stupid enough to believe American promises after all this? We are a nuclear power. That is not negotiable. We are willing to talk about limits freezes - but we would need to be given something in return security, in the form of diplomatic recognition by Washington and guarantees of nonaggression from China, Japan and the United States.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.”
“The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.”
“How can the word love, the word life, even fit in the mouth?”

Source : Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.143, Penguin
“... those, who from an immoderate and false self-love, study to keep their humanity under, always take care, for their own sakes, to represent poverty to themselves, as something ridiculous, mean, and contemptible.”
“I always get more applause than votes.”

Source : Norman Thomas (1970). “What are the Answers?: Norman Thomas Speaks to Youth”
“That's the beauty of this great sport (track), though-it's such a fine line between success or not, which makes the sweet moments that much more worth savoring.”
“Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.”

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