"Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it."

-- Jenny Shipley

#Fragile Things Quotes

“In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.”
“I just want to be happy. You know what I'm saying? I just want to be happy, and I want to be able to make somebody else happy.”
“At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.”
“Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might try is stabbing. Take an old pillow and lay it on the front lawn. Stab it with a big pointy knife. Again and again and again. Stab hard enough for the point of the knife to go into the ground. Stab until the pillow is gone and you are just stabbing the earth again and again, as if you want to kill it for continuing to spin, as if you are getting revenge for having to live on this planet day after day, alone.”
“(They) were found guilty of continuing to promote the merits of Laetrile in cancer therapy in violation of terms of probation they had originally secured following their 1973 conviction.”
“Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 53, Satires, XII, line 50, 1922.
“Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.”

Source : Source: m.cubs.mlb.com

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