"Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered."

-- Wilfrid Laurier

#House Quotes #Four Quotes #Nine Quotes

“Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.”
“It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards.”

Source : Nathanael West (2009). “Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust”, p.51, New Directions Publishing
“I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.”
“Itâ€™s my future and my life and I canâ€™t make myself live the way someone else wants me to.”
“What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more.”
“Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.”
“I think there was always something that everybody wishes they could relive in high school.”
“Many years ago, our father Ibrahim (AS) made a choice. He loved his son. But He loved God more. The commandment came to sacrifice his son. But it wasn't his son that was slaughtered. It was his attachment to anything that could compete with his love for God. So let us ask ourselves in these beautiful days of sacrifice, which attachments do we need to slaughter?”

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