"The tender pressure of his lips soothed her, like a warm drink in the dead of the winter, when every part of her felt so cold."

-- Lauren Kate

#Winter Quotes #Pressure Quotes #Lips Quotes

“Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're the symbol of nationalism to many.”
“I can't believe they even bothered filling that faculty position again. They might as well rename the class Defense Against the Dark Arts. I mean, seriously, who would answer an ad for this job?”
“old habits are hard to break, but not impossible!”

Source : Pearl Cleage (1997). “What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day”
“Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.”
“A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.”
“To-day a democrat of the old school would demand, not freedom for the press, but freedom from the press; but mean-time the leaders have changed themselves into parvenus who have to secure their position vis-a-vis the masses.”
“What the hell have Greenpeace and WWF done? They are paid very good salaries and they float around the world saying, 'We are helping the world,' but they haven't.”

Source : "The green man". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2002.
“Sun Tzu's ideas as expressed above had a profound effect on Ho Chi Minh, who sought to defeat both the French and the Americans without recourse to violence - or at least to conventional battle tactics.”

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