"A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way away."

-- Jeremy Irons

#Years Quotes #Long Quotes #Way Quotes

“Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.”

Source : Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1822). “Works”, p.33
“If it hadn't been for the rise of the working woman's wardrobe, I never would have found the time to sneak a kid in.”
“Watching a spring training game is as exciting as watching a tree form its annual ring.”
“Another car is not going to help me out, a nicer car, I've already got it. A bigger house ain't gonna do anything for me, and you know, a yacht, it's not going to do anything for me anymore. So how can I find happiness?”
“I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up.”
“When a pure devotee or spiritual master speak, what he says should be accepted as having been directly spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the Parampara System.”
“The agreement of the parties cannot make that good which the law maketh void.”

Source : Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Littleton, John Henry Thomas, Sir Matthew Hale, Francis Hargrave (1818). “A Systematic Arrangement of Lord Coke's First Institute of the Laws of England: On the Plan of Sir Matthew Hale's Analysis; with the Annotations of Mr. Hargrave, Lord Chief Justice Hale, and Lord Chancellor Nottingham; and a New Series of Notes and References to the Present Time: Including Tables of Parallel Reference, Analytical Tables of Contents, and a Copious Digested Index ..”, p.444
“God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.”

Source : James McBride (2012). “The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother”, p.39, A&C Black

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