"If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise."

-- Aung San Suu Kyi

#Long Quotes #Want Quotes #Compromise Quotes

“Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land.”

Source : Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Marco da Nizza (padre), Antonio de Mendoza (1964). “The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: trans. from his own narrative”
“And to kill time while awaiting death, I smoke slender cigarettes thumbing my nose to the gods.”
“It's a world creation show [Shadowhunters], so we've gotta work hard in the physical production capacity with the visual effects, the sets and everything. It's not just the real world with two people chatting in a diner. That's tough on a television budget.”
“No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.”
“Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.”

Source : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”
“I don't know that there has ever been a time when Abraham Lincoln didn't stand head-and-shoulders above all other presidents in the historians' eye. But relatively speaking, there have been peaks and a troughs. One peak was in the 1910s-20s; a major trough was in the 1970s-80s. We are certainly on a peak again, something which began in 1994 with Michael Burlingame's 'The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln,' which showed in fabulous detail how many new and untapped sources were available on Lincoln.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“Aggressive accounting does not mean illegal accounting.”
“Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.”

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