"Well?' Jasper said when Mairelon did not reply. 'Who are you?' 'No, no,' Mairelon said. 'I asked you first. I also, if you recall, asked how you found this place and what you intend to do here, and you haven't told me that, either.' 'We might ask you the same thing,' Jasper retorted. 'You might, but I don't recommend it,' Mairelon said. 'You'll get a reputation as a poor conversationalist if you all can do is repeat what other people say to you."

-- Patricia C. Wrede

#People Quotes #Might Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I once dated a guy who was like, 'Holy sh--, I just made out with Harriet the Spy!' And that's messed up. Don't say that. I was 10, you're 30, it's just weird.”
“There is no security for any power unless it be a security in which its neighbours have an equal share.”
“To the labor of man alone Smith ascribes the power of producing values. This is an error. A more exact analysis demonstrates... that all the values are derived from the operation of labor, or rather from the industry of man, combined with the operation of those agents which nature and capital furnish him.”
“A supreme deity would no more gift us with intellect and expect us to forsake it in moments of bafflement, than He would fashion us eyes to see and bid us shut them to the stars”
“At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.”
“Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to.”

Source : "Valentino: A Stylish Career Laid Bare". "All Things Considered" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. April 19, 2009.
“Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other form than that wherein they know it here, at any moment.”
“Sustaining growth is the century's big challenge.”

Source : "Sustaining growth is the century’s big challenge" by Martin Wolf, www.ft.com. June 11, 2008.

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