"On one occasion I went to Afghanistan to look at the borders and learn something about the situation there to see if my book was there?and it wasnt."

-- Leon Uris

#Book Quotes #Borders Quotes #Looks Quotes

“A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for.”

Source : Katie Couric (2011). “The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives”, p.288, Random House
“There is no point asserting and reasserting what the heart cannot believe.”
“Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.”
“We're not lawbreakers, we're law-abiding, and intend to stay that way.”
“Age simply doesn't enter into it! The older the friend, the more he is valued, particularly when he shows so visibly the characteristics that we all look for in friends. You have only to look at a genuine teddy's face to see at once the loyalty, common sense, and above all, dependability behind it.”

Source : Peter Bull (1969). “The teddy bear book”
“Take it from me: no matter how few or how many children you have, or how little or how much money you make, your expenses are going to exceed your income by approximately a hundred dollars a month.”

Source : Teresa Bloomingdale (1982). “Up a Family Tree”, G K Hall & Company
“Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's sake be it to the top of your bent.”
“Gods colliding, ethos and mythos trying to combine. The Sacred Band caught up in a whirlwind not of any god's devising: he and Niko had wanted to save twenty-three pairs of fated Theban fighters. Now everything feels fated and fighting oversweeps its boundaries of time and place and plane.”

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