"It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see."

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Source : Eleanor Farjeon (1963). “Faithful Jenny Dove: And Other Illusions”

Eleanor Farjeon

#Cat Quotes #Giving Quotes #Shiver Quotes

“Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.”
“That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust”
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”

Source : Speech in Ottawa on January 10, 1946. "Eisenhower Speaks: Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches". Book edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels, 1948.
“Today we have two Vietnams, side by side, north and south.”

Source : "Sheila Jackson Lee says there are two Vietnams: North and South" by Ciara O'Rourke, www.politifact.com. July 21, 2010.
“Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.”
“Today’s world is traveling in some strange direction. You see that the world is going toward destruction and violence. And the specialty of violence is to create hatred among people and to create fear. I am a believer in nonviolence and I say that no peace or tranquility will descend upon the people of the world until nonviolence is practiced, because nonviolence is love and it stirs courage in people.”

Source : Interview, 1985.
“civilization is a transient sickness.”
“I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.”

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