"When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss."

-- Margaret Mahy

#Friendship Quotes #Mother Quotes #Children Quotes

“I feel that it would be tedious for a person to have only one life. It would be much better to have two or three lives going on simultaneously...”
“The poor Geordies are in the process of being rebuffed by every sentient human being whose ambition in life is more than simply to pocket six million quid for having been a failure and run for the hills. They want beautiful, flowing football and tangible success, at St James' Park. Fine. I, meanwhile, want Jessica Alba and the Nobel prize for literature. I make my prospects slightly more realistic.”
“The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them.”

Source : Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.20, Macmillan
“A game is a series of interesting choices.”

Source : "GDC 2012: Sid Meier on how to see games as sets of interesting decisions" by Leight Alexander, www.gamasutra.com. March 7, 2012.
“Our military offensive is indispensable, since force must be met by force. But our social offensive is the extra weapon which the enemy cannot produce. Here the enemy meets democracy's strongest element-the ability to realize and satisfy the needs of its people without taking from them their freedom and dignity as human beings.”
“Oh god, I wish. I really wish. If I'm time-poor, which I usually am, that's the first thing to go. And I know it shouldn't be, I know I should be really regular, but I like to get it done as quickly as possible.”
“There is no such thing as making the miracle happen spontaneously and on the spot. You've got to work.”
“I don't have a fear of heights. I do, however, have a fear of falling from heights.”

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