"We owe it to the victims of the suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 to find out how the attacks happened and to learn the lessons that will spare lives in the future."

-- Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

#Suicide Quotes #July Quotes #Lessons Quotes

“The spoiled superstar brat wouldn't get far in Oklahoma City. We're very value-conscious. Our city was settled in a land run. Those 10,000 people were desperate for a better life.”
“One Divine Moment In The Sweet Sanctuary Of this shade We heard the birds The leaves in the breeze And waves as they played And in one divine moment We felt our hearts melt Suddenly we knew How nature Prayed”
“The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.”
“One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.”
“My imagination? No, I don't think it's VIVID at all. On the contrary, it's not nearly potent enough. My poor imaginative faculties have always needed...extentions. That's why I'm here with you. You're smiling again, or rather you're SMIRKING. Funny word, smirk. Rather like an extraterrestrial surname. Simon Smirk. How do you think that sounds?”
“It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness.”

Source : Tom Perrotta (2013). “Little Children”, p.144, Allison & Busby
“Give, but give until it hurts.”
“Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue”

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