"The gondola of London [a hansom]."

-- Benjamin Disraeli

#London Quotes #Gondolas Quotes

“The greatest motivation to share the gospel w/ someone today & everyday: Another voice around the throne. A louder song for Jesus.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 27, 2012
“Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out.”
“The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.”
“When they watch a movie and they know that you're in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.”
“He said, 'They're only whores,' as though their very availability rendered them worthless.”

Source : Ellen Kushner (2006). “The Privilege of the Sword”, p.344, Spectra
“All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.”
“You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you. Far otherwise; your silence utters very loud: you have no oracle to speak, no wisdom to offer, and your fellow men have learned that you cannot help them. Doth not wisdom cry, and understanding put forth her voice? We would be well to do likewise.”
“We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure - full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.”

Source : "Northern Exposure". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1990 - 1995.

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