"Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth. Fustel de"

-- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

#History Quotes #Mouths Quotes #Speak Quotes

“Everything changes when there is a real customer yelling at you from the other end of the phone.”
“I'm no expert on girls, but when one tries to pinch you four times, I'm pretty sure that's flirting”
“Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation.”
“I may have grown up in the Age of Aquarius, but I'm growing old in the Age of the Acronym.”

Source : Roy Peter Clark (2010). “The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English”, p.219, Hachette UK
“Health is the greatest of God's gifts, but we take it for granted; yet it hangs on a thread as fine as a spider's web and the tiniest thing can make it snap, leaving the strongest of us helpless in an instant.”

Source : Jennifer Worth (2005). “Shadows of the workhouse”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
“In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.”
“Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.”

Source : Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.123, Tin House Books
“Relationships help you learn more about what you want. If one doesn't work out, you just kind of look at it and go, Okay, well, this is what I did like and this is what I didn't like, and this is what I did wrong, and maybe I need to be more like this. And so you learn things, and that's why you grow. And you bring all the stuff that you've changed about yourself to a new relationship until you finally find that person you really, really want.”

Source : "Ashley Tisdale" by Dan Koday, www.seventeen.com. November 3, 2008.

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