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“I believe that the Belgians do possess some surrealistic gene.”
Source : Source: thequietus.com
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“Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this and is sensitive to that issue.”
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“Often, just as when they were children, it was four against one when some argument came up. At least they no longer sat on him to force him to submit to their wishes.”
Source : Kristen Britain (2011). “Blackveil: Book Four of Green Rider”, p.21, Penguin
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“The paint for the grey paintings was mixed beforehand and then applied with different implements - sometimes a roller, sometimes a brush. It was only after painting them that I sometimes felt that the grey was not yet satisfactory and that another layer of paint was needed.”
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“Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.”
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“And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.”
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“On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.”
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“Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy”
Source : Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”