"Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need."

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Source : Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.228, tredition

Katherine Cecil Thurston

#Grief Quotes #Loss Quotes #Men Quotes

“When it comes to climate change it's all the usual barriers: greed, mendacity, ignorance, short-sightedness and so on, manifest in the extreme power of corporations, the weakness of government, and the indifference of citizens.”
“Much of the blame is the malarkey that artists have created to glorify war, which as we all know, is nonsense, and a good deal worse than that â€” romantic pictures of battle, and of the dead and men in uniform and all that. And I did not want to have that story told again.”
“Tis best to build no castles in the air.”

Source : Fanny Burney, Stewart Cooke (2011). “The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney: Volume II: 1787”, p.293, Oxford University Press
“Because of my politics, people think I'm anti-American. But I was quite the reverse. What I don't like about the United States is when the government acts like an old, imperial 18th- or 19th-century European power.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 14, 2014.
“In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.”
“How the waves of the sea kiss the shore!”
“Christ, by highest heaven adored. Christ, the everlasting Lord, Late in time behold Him come, Offspring of a virgin's womb. Veiled in flesh the Godhead see, Hail the incarnate Deity! Pleased as Man with man to dwell; Jesus, our Immanuel!”
“I was asked to be in Vogue but I said no. I didn't want to advertise make-up. I didn't want to be seen as a sex symbol.”

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