"When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, its a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture."

-- John Bradley-West

#War Quotes #Two Quotes #People Quotes

“I can smell the smoke now. I can see tendrils of it comin' up between the cracks in the shrikin' floorboards. There she is, calmly taking down the framed examples of fine embroideries, samplers, and needlework from teh hallway wall and tucking them under her arm. "Mistress! Come on! You've got to leave!" She calmly turns and faces me. "Why?" she asks. "The British are coming?" "Only one, Mistress," I say”
“No longer can a young woman feel at ease; for she is ever concerned with the impression that she may be making on others.”
“The rumored frontrunner for [Donald] Trump`s Secretary of State is former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani who of course has no foreign policy experience.”
“Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize...that we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplest and most explicit of directions.”
“There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.”
“The greatest source of inspiration is hard work. Of course, I also believe in inspiration itself, but sometimes you have to provoke it, call on it repeatedly, even though it may take a while. There are times when I feel uninspired and I don't want to compose. I call these my 'bewitched' periods. I have to be touched with a magic wand.”
“The problem with most religious people is they try to earn grace but you canâ€™t earn it. And as long as youâ€™re trying to earn it by works, you donâ€™t receive it. At some point you just have to stop trying to earn it and just receive it.”
“... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.”

Source : Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (1846). “Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope”, p.13

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