"Some things we must pass over in silence."

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Source : Greg Iles (2006). “Turning Angel: A Novel”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

Greg Iles

#Silence Quotes

“The failure so far of the governments of so many of the worlds most powerful countries in the face of such egregious unfairness ... to make the slightest progress on the issue of fair trade is hard to explain.”
“Her memory's your love. You want no other.”
“Poverty - the greatest cause of human suffering on the planet - is itself exacerbated by conflict, competition for resources, injustice, even the global downturn and climate change. Diseases like AIDS, TB and malaria cannot be tackled without adequate resources. So you see everything is connected. In order to address any major cause of human suffering, we have to work together across many fronts.”
“Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky.”

Source : " Father of 'the God particle' Peter Higgs says fame is a bit of a nuisance" by Peter Higgs, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2014.
“You make me laugh like a loon on loon tablets!”
“I can sum it up like this: Thank God for the game of golf.”
“Each of us from the seance stood alone. Like so many pillars of salt, we had tried to look back and failed. And in the eyes of the others who shared the pale, flat sky with us, there was sometimes suspicion, sometimes a little fear.”
“In this apparatus is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness. On his revolutionary method of organic analysis.”

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