"These?" Mat said, gesturing to his coat and shirt. "I really have no idea. They were just down there. I'm completely baffled." He had been very pleased to learn that Seanchan guards-for all their stoic expressions and too-straight backs-responded to bribes like other people."

-- Robert Jordan

#Expression Quotes #Ideas Quotes #People Quotes

“It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.”

Source : John Henry Jowett (1910). “The School of Calvary”
“I will be your friend,' I said. 'I will go home to my mother's house the way I did when I skinned my knees as a little girl. I'll go and let myself be consoled by my roses, my palm trees, my enormous volcanoes in San Salvador. When you are old, maybe you'll come and see me someday.”
“The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time--maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right.”

Source : Leslie T. Chang (2010). “Factory Girls: Voices from the Heart of Modern China”, p.260, Pan Macmillan
“Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.”
“I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.”
“The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.”
“I spend most of hunting season at the ranch. We all love to hunt whitetails, and we have a pretty good supply in South Texas. I also love to hunt elk in Arizona, mule deer in Utah, and I've been to Canada to hunt caribou.”
“A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.”

Source : "Captain Courageous: Tom Hanks and Capt. Richard Phillips". Interview with Katherine Heintzelman and Jennifer Rainey Marquez, parade.com. September 21, 2013.

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