"You are brave! For my sake, do not be rash!"

-- Kenneth Grahame

#Bravery Quotes #Brave Quotes #Sake Quotes

“Since the journey is a metaphor - the most ambiguous and seductive of metaphors, we tell ourselves - it can also be born of immobility. There is no need to drag our bodies around so much, all dressed up. It's hot, there are flies, diseases. It is enough to close our eyes, seated on a chair in the shade, to float on the waves of imagination. Isn't that what books are there for?”

Source : Dacia Maraini, Dick Kitto, Elspeth Spottiswood (1999). “The Silent Duchess”, p.258, Feminist Press at CUNY
“This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?”
“To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.”
“Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from.”

Source : Helen Van Slyke (1988). “Helen Van Slyke, three complete novels”, Random House Value Pub
“When I’m not working I try to go natural and not wear a lot of makeup. I think your skin needs to breathe.”
“Hell was not for the living, it was for the dead, even the hallowed dead. Let the dead rest in peace. Someday Mack Bolan, too, would rest. For now, he had to find his way among the living.”

Source : Don Pendleton (2014). “Death Squad”, p.118, Open Road Media
“Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.”
“Adventures are to the adventurous.”

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