"Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles."

-- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#Democracy Quotes #Culture Quotes #Human Rights Quotes

“You can't applaud a referee.”
“What was said about all of us? We're stupid. You'll never work in a town again. How do you look your four children in the eye? You've sold your soul. You know, it went on and on.”
“A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.”
“Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.”
“I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.”
“I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell”
“If god created man in his own image, how come I'm not invisible?”
“Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or anything that involved the creative process and behaving like tortured artists. ... I found financial insecurity a great aphrodisiac.”

Source : Marian Keyes (2017). “Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married”, p.135, Penguin UK

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