"It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in it. Like an old man with rheumy eyes watching children play, seeing only transience in their shrill elation and their whole-hearted commitment to life."

-- Arundhati Roy

#Children Quotes #Commitment Quotes #Eye Quotes

“I knew that the deepest of tragedies was simple: to love, and not to be loved in return.”

Source : Judy Blundell (2011). “Strings Attached”, p.136, Scholastic Inc.
“Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with.”

Source : Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone
“Israel has the best engineers in the world... I view Israel as a tremendous source of technologies”
“I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.”
“A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, youre still going to get through the day. But it doesnt make you a happy person if you werent a happy person before.”
“Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.”
“Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.”
“Iâ€™ve always lived in the moment.”

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