"Being in Portland is cool. I have some good friends here and the general feeling might be a little more welcoming."

-- Robin Pecknold

#Good Friend Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Welcome Quotes

“This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all.”
“A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In a democracy, every ordinary citizen is effectively a king--but a king in a constitutional democracy, a monarch who decides only formally, whose function is merely to sign off on measures proposed by an executive administration. This is why the problem with democratic rituals is homologous to the great problem of constitutional monarchy: how to protect the dignity of the king? How to maintain the appearance that the king effectively makes decisions, when we all know this not to be true?”
“I think after Sandy Hook, when Obama went out, and he talked a lot about gun control and met with the parents, there was a sense that something was going to happen. But then, I guess, the power of special interests was greater than public sentiment.”
“I shall never marry, Atticus." "Why?" "I might have children.”
“...Any such unnatural union as the mingling of an exclusive system, such as homeopathy, with scientific medicine in a school,...(will) render every school adopting such a policy unworthy of support of the profession.”
“In old age, you realise that while you're divided from your youth by decades, you can close your eyes and summon it at will. As a writer it puts one at a distinct advantage.”

Source : "A life in books: Penelope Lively". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2009.
“Israel also deprived the world of its chance of shedding tears of genuine sympathy over her destruction. The world resents this; it likes to feel noble and sympathetic.”

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