"Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy"

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Source : Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

Phyllis McGinley

#Life Quotes #Spices Quotes #Compromise Quotes

“One unexpectedly striking moment, when Tom Amandes as Lincoln, recites the Gettysburg Address, not in booming, this-is-a-great-speech style, but casually, as if chatting over dinner. The approach elevates the words.”

Source : "The Man Who Protected Lincoln" by Neil Genzlinger, www.nytimes.com. February 14, 2013.
“When you die, you donâ€™t go to sleep. You go home to nonphysical reality, and you are very much awake.”
“A white girl disappears from a white prep school in a white suburb. Nobody knows what happened to her. The overall whiteness of the world is threatened. This must be resolved by whatever means possible.”

Source : Heidi Julavits (2008). “The Uses of Enchantment”, p.172, Anchor
“In Egypt, the cats...afford evidence that animal nature is not altogether intractable, but that when well-treated they are good at remembering kindness.”
“You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.”

Source : "PROFILE / EUGENIE SCOTT / Berkeley scientist leads fight to stop teaching of creationism" by Monica Lam, www.sfgate.com. February 7, 2003.
“It doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life, because that's going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.”

Source : "Daniel Day-Lewis wins third best actor Oscar". "PM" with Linda Mottram, www.abc.net.au. February 25, 2013.
“A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I came like Water, and like Wind I go.”

Source : Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.149, University of Virginia Press

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