"Freedom and diversity guard each other, and if a country could form the whole of one's character, Napoleon III and Victor Hugo would have been the same person... if national identity means anything, it means something that comes with you wherever you go, and stays with you no matter how long you stay away."

-- Clive James

#Country Quotes #Character Quotes #Mean Quotes

“She looked at him gravely. "You cannot call back the river that has already flowed past you, Ruith. All you can do is be grateful for where you are in it.”

Source : Lynn Kurland (2011). “Spellweaver”, p.108, Penguin
“Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.”

Source : David Baldacci (2009). “Absolute Power”, p.352, Pan Macmillan
“It is no accident that you are reading this. I am making black marks on white paper. These marks are my thoughts, and although I do not know who you are reading this...the lines of our lives have intersected. For the length of these few sentences, we meet here. It is no accident that you are reading this. This moment has been waiting for you, I have been waiting for you. Remember me.”
“There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted high above the level of human sounds and habitations, among the wild expanses and colossal features of Nature, we are thrilled in our loneliness with a strange fear and elation â€“ an ascent above the reach of life's expectations or companionship, and the tremblings of a wild and undefined misgivings.”

Source : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (2015). “The Haunted Baronet”, p.52, 谷月社
“I like action-adventure movies.”

Source : "'Sharknado's' Ian Ziering: 'Maybe This Is My Pulp Fiction Moment'". Interview with Erin Carlson, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 12, 2013.
“I'm a picker, I'm a grinner, I'm a lover and I'm a sinner. I play my music in the sun.”
“Even if your difficult time comes at you out of the blue - like cancer - even those times, opens your heart to the magic and power of life, and gives you this inner commitment to live every moment.”
“I been the same dude my whole life.”

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