"Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited."

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Source : Nan Fairbrother (1954). “An English Year”

Nan Fairbrother

#Understanding Quotes #Should Quotes #Offers Quotes

“The next step will be for the colonists on Mars to throw off the hand of the United States. There will be this wonderful historical irony. When the people on Mars write a declaration of independence saying, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident...', the US will be rather pissed off”
“An emptiness rules at its core, a rottenness, a silence when one of you retires to bed without saying good night, when you eat together without conversation, when the phone's passed wordlessly to the other. An emptiness when every night you lie in the double bed, restlessly awake, astounded at how closely hate can nudge against love, can wind around it sinuously like a cat. An emptiness when you realize that the loneliest you've ever been is within a marriage, as a wife.”
“We cannot allow violence from militant activists to dictate where and how democratically elected state leaders hold their meetings.”

Source : "Call for Europe to form anti-riot force" by Rory Carroll and Rebecca Allison, www.theguardian.com. August 05, 2001.
“Colonel Otto, do you have a, perhaps, fuller and more detailed account than your preliminary one of why my Imperial Security building is now largely an underground installation? From a technical perspective.”
“The Christian who is truly intimate with Jesus will never draw attention to himself but will only show the evidence of a life where Jesus is completely in control. This is the outcome of allowing Jesus to satisfy every area of life to its depth. The picture resulting from such a life is that of the strong, calm balance that our Lord gives to those who are intimate with Him.”
“The limitation of the vlog format is that it may seem to give people enough, when they actually have no real autonomy.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Thank you for trusting me.”
“The universe is a really interesting place. I couldn't live anywhere else.”

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