"Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong."

-- E. M. Forster

#Niece Quotes #Sky Quotes #Rose Quotes

“everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization becomes a vested-interest institution more concerned with its efforts to maintain itself or advance its own interests than to achieve the purpose that society expects it to achieve.”

Source : Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.
“Half of my life Iâ€™ve had people staring at me because they think Iâ€™m funny-looking and ugly. The other half â€¨of my life Iâ€™ve had people staring at me because they think Iâ€™m fascinating. Everything neutralises”
“Sith Nature thus gave her the praise, To be the chiefest work she wrought, In faith, methink, some better ways On your behalf might well be sought, Than to compare, as ye have done, To match the candle with the sun.”

Source : Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (Illustrated)”, p.45, Delphi Classics
“The reason I emphasize that is because that is exactly what happened when Mussolini was put in by the king of Italy,”

Source : "Judge Sorry for Comparing Bush's Rise to Hitler's". www.foxnews.com. June 25, 2004.
“The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.”
“Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship”

Source : Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2013). “The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st-Century Church”, p.93, Baker Books
“It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.”
“Shevchenko is the best attacker in Europe. He has a great deal of consistency and he just keeps scoring - which in Italian football is very difficult. He is a complete player, someone who can do everything on a football field”

Source : "Electric Sheva" by Amy Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2005.

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