"Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows."

-- Dodie Smith

#Cows Quotes #Topaz Quotes #Patient Quotes

“My past is no secret to anyone. I'm a blackguard and a sinner, and everyone knows it. These days, that's almost an asset to being a politician.”

Source : Jennifer Ashley (2012). “The Duke's Perfect Wife”, p.19, Penguin
“The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources.”
“I think it was Mark Twain who said, â€œGet your facts straight, and then you can distort them as much as you like.”

Source : Josh Lanyon (2002). “A Dangerous Thing”, Millivres Books
“In my lifetime, I want to see humanity start being conscious of our waste, the things we buy, and how we can reuse and recycle things. I want people to live harmoniously with our planet. I hope everybody wakes up and appreciates life.”
“It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.”
“It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.”
“The gods have provided me with clear and compelling signs of what it means to live in conformity to nature. They did their part. So far as their gifts, aid, and inspiration are concerned, nothing prevented me from following the path prescribed by nature. If from time to time I have strayed from this path, the fault lies with me and with my failure to heed the gods' signs, or rather, their explicit instructions.”
“Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.”

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