"His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know."

-- A. A. Milne

#Dresses Quotes #Faces Quotes #Glad Quotes

“I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.”

Source : John Hanning Speke (2015). “Source of the Nile”, p.11, Amberley Publishing Limited
“Life attacks us like a blind beast. It swallows up time, the years of our life, it passes like a typhoon and leaves nothing behind. Not even memory, because memory is made of the same swift, ungraspable substance out of which illusions emerge and then disappear.”
“Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys.”

Source : Peter Schjeldahl (2008). “Let's see: writings on art from the New Yorker”
“I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.”
“May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.”
“An exacting account of the processes by which things fall apart. The scope is breathtaking...the clarity and lyricism of the writing itself left me with repeated gasps of recognition about the human condition. I believe it will be a classic.”
“Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.”
“On the face of it, these look like bad times for Labour and for Ed Miliband's leadership. There seems to be no strategy, no narrative and little energy. Old faces from the Brown era still dominate the shadow cabinet and they seem stuck in defending Labour's record in all the wrong ways: we didn't spend too much money, we'll cut less fast and less far, but we can't tell you how.”

Source : New Statesman, January 5, 2012.

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