"Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent."

-- H. G. Wells

#War Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure.”
“Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.”
“One moment of magic, or one big moment to capture the match.”
“I have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurse's for aspirin and waddle along the halls with a pad like a flattened rabbit tail wadded between my legs, sopping with liver-colored blood.”
“The crew members for 'The Price Is Right' at night are the same guys who work 'Y&R' during the day. It's even in the same studio. I've been in the place for 15 years. So all the faces at 'The Price Is Right' are familiar.”
“husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones ...”

Source : Patricia Wentworth (2006). “Miss Silver Intervenes”, p.139, Hachette UK
“If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.”
“Tis a strange thing, that the only friends I have I found in the same way, lying flat in the meadows, crying as if their hearts would break.”

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