"After a while, footsteps sounded on the flagstones outside and there was a gentle tap at the door. Of course, one of them would come. So close were we, the seven of us, that no childhood injury went unnoticed, no slight, real or imagined, went unaddressed, no hurt was endured without comfort."

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Juliet Marillier

#Hurt Quotes #Real Quotes #Doors Quotes

“Presidents are given immense power in the American political system when it comes to personnel. FBI directors are given ten-year terms to insulate them from politics as much as one can, but it's not absolute protection. If a president wants to fire an FBI director, they can do that.”
“If we are to say that religion cannot be concerned with politics then we are really saying that there is a substantial part of human life in which God's writ does not run. If it is not God's, then whose is it? Who is in charge if not the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
“Q: Does this train stop at Brighton? A: I hope so or there's going to be a hell of a splash.”
“When I find my consort, I plan to stab him in the heart before he can cause me a moment's unease. -Taliyah”
“Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!”

Source : John C. Bogle (2010). “The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns”, p.74, John Wiley & Sons
“You know, the primary process itself is very confusing. But in the end, I guess I believe what Winston Churchill said, which is that democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others. And that phrase of his, which I always have previously thought to be kind of acute, more recently I've thought of it in this way, to say well, you know what, he's also saying it's the worst form of government - except for all of the others.”

Source : "The American Political Invention That 'Let The People Rule'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.
“The expansion of tobacco cessation centers is an important part of our historic and continuing effort to help smokers quit. The expansion of these centers will give even more New Yorkers the help they need to quit once and for all.”
“As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.”

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