"Most mothers are instinctive philosophers."

--

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Mothers Day Quotes #Mom Quotes #Philosopher Quotes

“I smoked some weed, and that's how I finished 'Izzo.'”
“I wanted to believe anything so that I wouldnâ€™t have to face the future alone. The problem with wanting is that it makes us weak.”

Source : Leigh Bardugo (2014). “Ruin and Rising”, p.72, Macmillan
“No one -- absolutely no one -- is above the law,”
“My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.”

Source : Letter to Lord Althorpe, 5 October 1782, in Lord Teignmouth 'Life of Sir W. Jones' (1835) vol. 1
“If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.”
“In researching this volume, I interviewed veterans who had been at the front during World War II. I read countless books, examined film footage, and listened to many detailed and intense stories firsthand, but the one comment that affected me the most came from a former soldier who lowered his gaze to the tabletop and said, â€˜I never watch war movies.”
“In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood.”
“As everybody knows, chicks dig the vampires.”

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