"They hold a grudge like it was their family treasure."

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Source : Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.90, Penguin

Ilona Andrews

#Treasure Quotes #Grudge Quotes

“Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of the truth man is given at birth -- by man I mean man and woman.”
“The autumn wind is a Raider, / Pillaging just for fun; / He'll knock you around, / And upside down, / And laugh when he's conquered and won.”

Source : "Steve Sabol, Cinematic Force for N.F.L., Dies at 69" by Douglas Martin, www.nytimes.com. September 18, 2012.
“Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves onevery occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us.”
“Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it?”
“The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.”
“One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.”
“What I don't like is talking points.”
“Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?”

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