"I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace."

-- Woodrow Wilson

#Mean Quotes #Echoes Quotes #Together Quotes

“Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable.”
“For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.”

Source : Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Moon Over Soho”, p.322, Del Rey
“Since we are part of nature...we empathize deeply with its ways... they serve as models of how things should be.”
“Monkey Beach is a moody, powerful novel full of memorable characters. Reading it was like entering a pool of emerald water to discover a haunted world shivering with loss and love, regret and sorrow, where the spirit world is as real as the human. I was sucked into it with the very first sentence and when I left, it was with a feeling of immense reluctance.”
“I think you can tell the difference between "swagger" and real confidence immediately. You can smell it, like bad body spray versus nice cologne.”
“For dash and gallantry the bloodthirsty Scots, Australians and Canadians led the way, with the impetuous Irish close behind. The Australian to my mind were the most aggressive, and managed to keep their form in spite of their questionable discipline. Out of the line they were undoubtedly difficult to handle, but once in it they loved a fight. They were a curious mixture of toughness and sentimentality...”
“Protectionism, socialism, all varieties of state favoritism and restrictions on competition, and the growth of bureaucracy and jobbery were the means by which special interests sought to exploit the public, the great mass of consumers and taxpayers.”
“No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.”

Source : Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1860). “The National Review”, p.234

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