"You do realize you just insulted me, right?" "How so?" "You implied that I can't protect her or my people." I looked at him. "That's not at all what I meant." "Apologize and I'll let it go." I kept my hands firmly on the iron rail before me. Grabbing the weight bar and walloping the Beast Lord upside the head wouldn't be the best diplomatic move. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty." There. I was civil. It almost killed me."

-- Ilona Andrews

#Sorry Quotes #Moving Quotes #Iron Quotes

“Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.”

Source : "A Gathering Swarm" by Todd Gitlin, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2005.
“In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.”

Source : RFC 791, "Internet Protocol", www.ietf.org. September 1981.
“It is better to be the cause of an effect rather than be the effect that was caused.”
“He will grow up into one of those people who lean back to smile and jump so easily it looks like slow motion and steer cars with their knees and snitch roses from gardens to give to girls and write with their left hand and own two pairs of jeans and one jacket and fall in love from such a height and so hard and so completely that they never quite recover from the drop. But at least he will have me to look out for him.”
“Beauty has nothing to do with the size you wear. It has to do with what's in your heart.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 7, 2011
“Remember blessed children of men that the purpose of the real science should be to increase the happiness and to free the race from every external condition that would not be beneficial for the elation of man to the pristine greatness of his original cosmic destiny.”
“Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.”

Source : "William Hague: 'We have to build new alliances with the emerging powers'". Interview with Andrew Rawnsley and Toby Helm, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2011.
“The beauty that men seek is half a dream-- Where'er we wander, yet it lies afar; It touches with its wand a setting star, It stirs the ripple of an ebbing stream. And though we run beyond the dawning gleam, Or kneel to worship at an altar bright, We may not know the soul of its delight, Or more than marvel at its palest beam.”

Source : Kenneth Rand (1914). “The Rainbow Chaser: And Other Poems ...”

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