"A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense."

-- V. S. Pritchett

#Natural Quotes #Tense Quotes #Native Quotes

“There is no glimpse of the light without walking the path. You can't get it from anyone else, nor can you give it to anyone. Just take whatever steps seem easiest for you, and as you take a few steps it will be easier for you to take a few more.”
“When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.”

Source : Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler
“I'm actually totally the prude of my family.”

Source : "Why HBO's Sue Naegle Didn't Lose Sleep Over 'Homeland's' Big Wins". Interview with Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 05, 2012.
“This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.”
“There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and duty of juries to judge what are the facts, what is the law, and what is the moral intent of the accused; but that it is also their power, and their primary and paramount duty, to judge the justice of the law, and to hold all laws invalid, that are, in their opinion, unjust or oppressive, and find all persons guiltless in violating, or resisting the execution of, such laws.”
“You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.”
“What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.”

Source : P. D. James (2011). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.11, Faber & Faber
“She remembered him smiling, and realized that time, that great old healer, had finally accomplished its work, and now, across the years, the face of love no longer stirred up agonies of grief and bitterness. Rather, one was left feeling simply grateful. For how unimaginably empty the past would be without him to remember.”

Source : Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “The Shell Seekers”, p.432, Macmillan

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