"The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables."

-- Charles Lamb

#Friends Quotes #Party Quotes #Going Away Quotes

“It's so much easier to do it right than to do it wrong.”
“The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes concerning it are abundant. But never before has there been such a prima donna as Bobby. Already he has managed to alienate and offend almost everybody in the chess world. That includes officials, patrons, writers, almost everybody and anybody who might be in a position to help him in his career.”
“Pietas prevailed, and out of the blood of Caesar the monarchy was born.”

Source : Ronald Syme (2002). “The Roman Revolution”, p.201, OUP Oxford
“I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor.”

Source : Speech, June 29, 1982.
“The [president] has no particle of spiritual jurisdiction. . . .”
“A soulmate is someone you can completely be yourself with. Someone with whom you share unconditional love and when you look into each other's eyes, you know that you are home.”
“How we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I'm listening to music, I tend to find myself in a song. That's what really makes you connect is if you feel what that song is saying.”

Source : "Amy Grant: 'Somewhere Down the Road'". CBNmusic Interview, www.cbn.com. October 16, 2013.
“No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.”

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