"Venice is like doing acid. If you can't take it with you after you either come down or move away, you were never really there in the first place."

-- Anne Alexander

#Moving Quotes #Venice Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Practice. Listen. Use you ears. And as Rob [Halford] said, that team effort. You can learn your instrument in your room, but being in a band is more than playing your instrument.”
“The man who has grit enough to bring about the afforestation or the irrigation of a country is not less worthy of honor than its conqueror.”
“The real question is "Why should we make an exception for billionaire politicians?". We should not.”
“The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you will never, ever, be able to write women well.”
“When we accept Christ we enter into three new relationships: (1) We enter into a new relationship with God. The judge becomes the father; the distant becomes the near; strangeness becomes intimacy and fear becomes love. (2) We enter into a new relationship with our fellow men. Hatred becomes love; selfishness becomes service; and bitterness becomes forgiveness. (3) We enter into a new relationship with ourselves. Weakness becomes strength; frustration becomes achievement; and tension becomes peace.”
“The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kevin Hart from Sep 21, 2012
“Her joy with him was like nothing she had ever experienced. His love for her felt like a miracle.”
“The Convention is not only a visionary document. We are reminded daily that it is an agreement that works - and its utility can be seen in the everyday use to which I have seen it increasingly being put by country after country, in policy, in practice and in law.”

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