"You could push people away, past their limits, even accidentally, and then it was just too late to get them back"

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Source : Laura Moriarty (2013). “The Rest of Her Life”, p.262, Penguin UK

Laura Moriarty

#Past Quotes #People Quotes #Too Late Quotes

“Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty.”
“The world petroleum story is one of the most inhuman known to man: in it, elementary moral and social principles are jeered at. If powerful oil trusts no longer despoil and humiliate our country it is not because these predators have become human, but because we have won a hard-fought battle which has been going on since the beginning of the century.”
“The goal of a definition is to introduce a mathematical object. The goal of a theorem is to state some of its properties, or interrelations between various objects. The goal of a proof is to make such a statement convincing by presenting a reasoning subdivided into small steps each of which is justified as an "elementary" convincing argument.”
“Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.”
“Im a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.”
“As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.”

Source : Alison Lurie (2012). “The Nowhere City: A Novel”, p.11, Open Road Media
“There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.”

Source : William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.8, Westminster John Knox Press
“We want no revolution; we want the brotherhood of men. We want men to love one another. We want all men to have what is sufficient for their needs. And now - strange thought - the devil has so maneuvered that the people turn from Him because those who profess Him are clothed in soft raiment and sit at well-spread tables and deny the poor.”

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