"We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!" Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast! What man can look on Death unterrified?"

-- Richard Watson Gilder

#Faith Quotes #Wise Quotes #Flower Quotes

“The Indian criminal justice system was a market like garbage, Abdul now understood. Innocence and guilt could be bought and sold like a kilo of polyurethane bags.”

Source : Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum”, p.94, Portobello Books
“I would love to have played in the '60s. Now that would have been fun.”
“I sympathize the first, the direct and single-minded attack [Red Revolution]. I believe it to have been necessary and inevitable in Russia. It may someday be inevitable in this country [United States of America]. I am not seriously alarmed by the sufferings of the creditor class, the troubles which the church is bound to encounter, the restrictions on certain kinds of freedom which must result, nor even by the bloodshed of the transition period. A better economic order is worth a little bloodshed.”
“If you could avoid all your mistakes, you'd miss everything you learned from them.”
“A good girl is supposed to be very quiet”
“Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.”

Source : Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word & other words”, Dutton Adult
“Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them.”
“I feel lucky to live at a time when the dominant tennis players are Venus and Serena Williams. And to have lived through the success of a whole slew of boxers and feel I could invest emotionally and psychologically in their victories, and identify with them in their struggles.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

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