"You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't."

-- Katherine Paterson

#Thinking Quotes #Cry Quotes #Wells Quotes

“Torch songs are confessions. They are an expression of feeling that cannot be concealed or contained or minimized. They are marked by anguish, yes, but also by yielding.”

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“Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.”

Source : "Épitres". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1701.
“Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about democracy. If schools were, in reality, democratic, there would be no need to bombard students with platitudes about democracy. They would simply act and behave democratically, and we know this does not happen. The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is.”
“If you do the right thing, the right thing will come down the path.”
“The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure”
“I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.”
“The best advice my mom ever gave me was that you have to talk about your emotions. If something upsets me, she'd say, 'Get mad about it; it's healthy for you,' and I could feel like: Good; now it's over...next!”
“Only fools mistake politicians for messiahs.”

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