"People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death."

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Source : "Cardinals, bishops and doctors must not deny us our last rights" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.

Polly Toynbee

#People Quotes #Want Quotes #Longing Quotes

“Gaining trust is like filling a bucket one drop at a time.”
“A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest”
“Live we're a lot louder and noisier on the album. I think for the album we took a lot of time for the songwriting and we wanted to make good pop music, and I think there's plus and minuses to doing pop music and noise.”
“I was making commercials. That's how I learned the craft. That was the marketing part of it: directing commercial for TV. It wasn't the most common thing to become a filmmaker in Greece. I started by saying I was interested in marketing and have a proper job in advertising and commercials. Basically, I studied film to learn how to do marketing, and commercials. As I studied film I learned I'd be interested in making films instead of commercials.”
“Nothing ever got my pulse racing (in a good way) like hockey. Well, nothing except Beyonce, but that wasn't until I was twelve or so. Then, all of a sudden, it was like I opened my eyes one day and noticed that the world is full of beautiful girls, and I've had a hard time thinking about anything else ever since.”
“Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.”

Source : Millicent Garrett Fawcett (2011). “The Women's Victory - and After: Personal Reminiscences, 1911-1918”, p.66, Cambridge University Press
“Time has changed and now is the age of spending.”
“His judgments are just; His mercy without limit; His power to compensate beyond any earthly comparison.”

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