"The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal."

-- Maurice Maeterlinck

#Waiting Quotes #Soul Quotes #Hovering Quotes

“When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty.”
“The theory of marketing is solid but the practice of marketing leaves much to be desired.”
“Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you really want it to. Like now.”

Source : Brian Selznick (2015). “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, p.375, Scholastic Inc.
“Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.”
“India is a continent and should be divided into separate nations. There is no need for a single government.”
“I'm an L.A. girl who became a tough New York cop.”
“Don't you think baby corns are scary? There's just something wrong about their midget bodies.”
“We are close to a consensus that the Kyoto Protocol does huge economic, political, social and ecological damage to the Russian Federation. In addition, it certainly violates the rights and freedoms of Russian citizens, and well as the rights and freedoms of citizens in those countries which signed and ratified it.”

Source : "Q&A: Putin's Critical Adviser" by Yuri Zarakhovich, time.com, December 31, 2005.

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