"One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda"

-- Eva Ibbotson

#Aunt Quotes #Other Cultures Quotes #Judging Quotes

“He started to touch the mechanism under the keyboard, then pulled his hand back with a snap. "Ah," he said. "Must deactivate the security....Turn around, please." "What?" "Turn around, Claire. It's a secure password!" "You have GOT to be kidding." "Why ever would I joke about that? Please turn.”
“The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.”

Source : Sydney Biddle Barrows, William Novak (1987). “Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows”, Ivy Books
“... if the society toward which we are developing is not to be a nightmare of exhaustion, we must use the interlude of the present era to develop a new technology which is based on a circular flow of materials such that the only sources of man's provisions will be his own waste products.”

Source : "Economics As a Science". Book by Kenneth E. Boulding, 1970.
“If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.”

Source : Linda Ellerbee (2005). “Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table”, Putnam Adult
“I'm a Southerner, born and bred, but that doesn't mean I approve of all that goes on here, and there are a lot of other white people who feel the same.”

Source : "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry". Book by Mildred D. Taylor, 1976.
“I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.”
“Through the years as the fire starts to mellow, burning lines in the book of our lives. Though the binding cracks and the pages start to yellow, I'll be in love with you.”

Source : Song: Longer, Album: Phoenix
“There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. As this operation continues, those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who guard them.”

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