"United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony."

-- Richard Holbrooke

#Trying Quotes #World Quotes #Irony Quotes

“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.”
“Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide.”

Source : 'The Garden' (1681) st. 7
“My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia”
“It is always a question of knowing and seeing, and not that of believing. The teaching of the Buddha is qualified as ehi-passika, inviting you to 'come and see', but not to come and believe.”

Source : Walpola Rahula (2014). “What the Buddha Taught”, p.18, Oneworld Publications
“Finally, I was no longer a student and was making music for myself.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.”
“I am a nice young girl here to pick up your granddaughter for the weekend... We're going to a Bible retreat to scare the devil out of her. - Bones to Cat's grandparents”
“If you lie to your husband - even about something so banal as how much you drink - each lie is a brick in a wall going up between you, and when he tells you he loves you, it's deflected away.”

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