"I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls."

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Source : Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel”, p.37, Hachette UK

Daphne du Maurier

#Black Quotes #Wish Quotes #Pearls Quotes

“The rewards go to the risk-takers, those who are willing to put their egos on the line and reach out to other people and to a richer, fuller life for themselves.”

Source : Susan RoAne (1989). “How to Work a Room: Learn the Strategies of Savvy Socializing - for Business and Personal Success”, p.190, SP Books
“The Internet is a far more speech-enhancing medium than print, the village green, or the mails. Because it would necessarily affect the Internet itself, the C.D.A. would necessarily reduce the speech available for adults on the medium. This is a constitutionally intolerable result.”

Source : "Excerpts From Opinions of Judges on Blocking Enforcement of InternetLaw". www.nytimes.com. June 13, 1996.
“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
“Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,- a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.”

Source : "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations" by James William Norton-Kyshe, (p. 221), 1904.
“The warrior's gift is to willingly storm Hell that Heaven may remain unstained.”
“The imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find fault with them, see them for what they are and then alter them.”
“Yes. My mother was and still is a Folk Singer. She was very involved in the political movements for Unions and Civil rights. She sang with Pete Seeger among others. My father was an Actor.”
“We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.”

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