"Events are moving so fast and what in one moment seems impossible, the next is happening. I'm sure historians will, in time, provide theories and analysis, but for now I think most of us simply want the tide stemmed."

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Source : "Economic bail-out aims to restore confidence for small firms and savers" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.

Lucy Powell

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“There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.”
“I show through my movies that I can do something else. But I always play strong-minded characters. I think it's maybe because I'm like that. I love being by myself.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You are the real teachers. You have these children when they are at their emotional peaks and lows. That's when they are the most pliable. It doesn't take any intelligence to send a kid home with his head hanging between his knees. But to send him home with his head up every night might show a little coaching.”
“Dear young people, let yourselves be taken over by the light of Christ, and spread that light wherever you are.”
“I hate gowns. It's a rare gown indeed that is cool. Most are elegant or whatever, a quality I don't put a big premium on.”
“I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen.”
“Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.”

Source : John D. MacDonald (1985). “Five complete Travis McGee novels”, Outlet
“Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.”

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