"[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one."

-- Florence Nightingale

#Fancy Quotes #Conversation Quotes #Companion Quotes

“I went to Afghanistan in '96 to write about terrorist training camps south of Jalalabad and Tora Bora, in the mountains. I was there right before the Taliban took over, literally a few weeks before they took Kabul. The frontline wasn't terribly active, but it was definitely there. And they swept into power.”
“The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.”

Source : Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1914). “Salesman's Prospectus for "Billy" Sunday: The Man and His Message, with His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”
“No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away.”

Source : "Final Fantasy X". Video Game, www.imdb.com. 2001.
“...When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's like a fire you've tended all your life, and the sparks are all scattered into the wind.... That's why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going.”

Source : Kevin Brockmeier (2008). “The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories”, p.84, Vintage
“I see a pair of shoes I adore, and it doesn't matter if they have them in my size. I buy them anyway.”
“I'm very confident that the solutions that we are developing are going to be effective not only in application in Iraq, but also will be very helpful for potential homeland security situations as well.”
“Children have a primal need to know who they are, to love and be loved by the two people whose physical union brought them here. To lose that connection, that sense of identity, is to experience a wound that no child-support check or fancy school can ever heal.”
“I am not a star. I am an actor. I have been fighting for years to make people forget that I am just a pretty boy with a beautiful face. It's a hard fight, but I will win it. I want the public to realize that above all I am an actor, a very professional one who loves every minute of being in front of the camera. But one who becomes very miserable the instant the director shouts, 'Cut!'”

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