"In winter, some voices are like coats."

-- Ahlam Mosteghanemi

#Winter Quotes #Voice Quotes #Coats Quotes

“The Republican movement have not behaved properly over the years. They have not themselves implemented the Agreement. If they had implemented the Agreement then they would have disarmed completely in May 2000, that is what they undertook to do, that is what they failed to do.”
“Sometimes I steal costumes.”
“And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another.”
“But all years are stupid. It's only when they're over that they become interesting.”
“I think the most moving part of my trip [to Africa] so far was seeing 92-year-old Nelson Mandela, and just thinking about his life. This man has lived through a struggle that few nations have known.”
“For so long I just let people surmise what they would about my life and my choices, and other people have written books and told tales.”
“You have treated the arts as the cherry on the cake. It needs to be the yeast.”
“The house, while sound in wind and limb, was described as being of 'no character.' We didn't think then that it had anything but character, rather sinister perhaps, but definitely character.”

Source : Margery Fish (2011). “We Made a Garden”, p.12, Pavilion Books

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