"Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didnâ€™t talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit."

-- Patrick Rothfuss

#Pay Quotes #Might Quotes #Neighbor Quotes

“To do anything, it is first necessary to be doing nothing.”

Source : Nancy Hale (1957). “Heaven and Hardpan Farm”
“If you donâ€™t move, you get stale.”
“What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.”

Source : William John Wills (1863). “A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia: From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria”, p.46, London : R. Bentley
“It is in the faculty of noble, disinterested, unselfish love that lies the true gift and power of womanhood,--a power which makes us, not the equal of men (I never care to claim such equality), but their equivalents; more than their equivalents in a moral sense.”

Source : Frances Power Cobbe (1882). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”
“Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again, if it be ill composed; and if well composed I can hardly leave off looking at it.”
“Reviving Spring, a toast to thy fresh lips! Thy blush is music, and e'en heaven lurks In thy thick perfumed hair that hangs about Thy flowered shoulders like enchanted rain; Thy sigh is song and thy soft breath a balm, Dispelling death -- soft loosing his cold grip, Unravelling darkness in the heart of pain, As o'er dank waters rings the laugh of dawn.”

Source : William Batchelder Greene (1888). “Cloudrifts at Twilight”
“The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.”
“Ain't nobody messin' with you but you”

Source : "Song: "Althea"("Go to Heaven")". 1980.

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