"Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand."

-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Character Quotes #Moments Quotes #Difficult Quotes

“Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.”
“The thing about my music is, there really is no point.”
“We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.”

Source : “'I Can’t Talk Fellowship': Lessons From the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in the Wake of the BP Oil Disaster" by Cherri Foytlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2013.
“Perhaps love's greatest gift--that it is indeed unconditional--is also its greatest curse.”
“I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.”
“Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.”
“He felt as though his heart were a bomb, a complicated bomb that would result in a simple explosion, wrecking the world without rocking it.”

Source : Nathanael West, Jonathan Lethem (2009). “Miss Lonelyhearts: & the Day of the Locust”, p.13, New Directions Publishing
“The ability of dandelions to tell the time is somewhat exaggerated, owing to the fact that there is always one seed that refuses to be blown off; the time usually turns out to be 37 o'clock.”

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