"However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire."

-- Vera Brittain

#Friends Quotes #Children Quotes #Parent Quotes

“In strategy your spiritual bearing must not be any different from normal. Both in fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased.”
“You have to do a show, an interview, you've got to go straight back on the road to another location, make a track and edit things like footage etc. It's non stop. I really respect the hustle and work rate of Chipmunk, as well as N-Dubz and Tinchy Stryder.”
“There are â€œwell-known secretsâ€ out there and there are people who are â€œso happy they could die.â€ Sometimes people are so sad they have to laugh and sometimes things feel so wrong, theyâ€™re right. Basically what Iâ€™m saying is, I usually donâ€™t know what people are talking about.”
“When Ronaldo gave that little wink everyone interpreted it that he had got his team-mate sent off. You felt then that he would become a much criticised figure. But that's not really what happened. So for him to overcome all of that and emerge as one of the players of the season is quite a remarkable achievement. He is a phenomenal talent. He has tremendous pace, he goes past players and he has added the ability to shoot. He can also pick out team-mates. There is not a lot he cannot do now. I believe his game has improved immeasurably over the past couple of seasons.”
“Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.”
“Urgency and vision are the twin pillars on which humanity's hope now hangs.”

Source : Christopher Flavin, Amanda Chiu, Lisa Mastny (2008). “Low-carbon Energy: A Roadmap”, p.36, Worldwatch Institute
“Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.”
“Turn down the noise. Reduce the speed. Be like the somnolent bears, or those other animals that slow down and almost die in the cold season. Let it be the way it is. The magic is there in its power.”

Source : Henry Mitchell (1999). “One Man's Garden”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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