"In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is enough that they exist. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. It is from these things that it flowers."

-- Pam Brown

#Friendship Quotes #War Quotes #Distance Quotes

“I'll come back to you," I say. "I promise you, if it's the last thing I do, I'll come back to you." Her face is buried in my neck. She nods. "I'll count the minutes until you do." she says.”
“Like anything to do with trust, in any relationship it emerges and just the chemistry, vibe between two people [an actor and a director]. You just know whether this is someone I like to be with whose interaction with me I believe in.”
“Training leaders is part of the work of discipling.”
“The world should have stopped, but it didn't. The world kept on going. How can the world just keep on going? An earthquake in India kills a thousand people, and the world keeps on going. A famine in China kills a million people, and the world keeps on going. The twin towers of the World Trade Center buckle and fall, and the world, the world keeps on going.”

Source : Alison McGhee (2013). “All Rivers Flow to the Sea”, p.2, Candlewick Press
“My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.”
“This would be a grand land if only every Irishman would kill a negro, and be hanged for it.”

Source : 1881 Of America. Letter to F H Dickinson from New Haven, 4 Dec.
“The nation relies upon public discussion as one of the indispensable means to attain correct solutions to problems of social welfare. Curtailment of free speech limits this open discussion. Our whole history teaches that adjustment of social relations through reason is possible when free speech is maintained.”
“The real two-party system in America is the Meanies and the Weenies. The Meanies want to take away your benefits, and the Weenies want to compromise with them.”

Source : "Alan Grayson Strikes Back". Interview with Lloyd Grove, www.newsweek.com. November 28, 2011.

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