"...the mayor should not be advancing a policy that encourages [illegal] immigrants to think of New York City as their safe haven."

-- Ed Koch

#New York Quotes #Safe Haven Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“No matter what he does, one always forgives him. It does not depend upon looks, either â€“ although this actual person is abominably good-looking â€“ it does not depend upon intelligence or character or â€“ anything â€“ as you say, it is just it.”

Source : The Man and the Moment ch. 7 (1914)
“It is impossible â€“ now, at this point in the long journey of human culture â€“ to avoid the sense that pain is necessity; that it is neither accident, nor malformation, nor malice, nor misunderstanding, that it is integral to the human character both in its inflicting and in its suffering, this terrible sense Tragedy alone has articulated, and will continue to articulate, and in so doing, make beautifulâ€¦”
“I actually studied cooking and, like, was thinking about becoming a chef.”
“You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.”
“The ACLU sues no matter what public property a religious symbol is placed on.”
“Beauty has a lot to do with character.”
“I was born to give the white man hell, and I will give him hell from the cradle to the grave,”

Source : "Nation of Islam Associate: Ex-Official Dies After Suffering Hemorrhage". www.beliefnet.com.
“The great mind knows the power of gentleness.”

Source : Robert Browning, Charlotte Endymion Porter, Helen Archibald Clarke (1898). “Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau”

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