"When a Forsyte was engaged, married, or born, the Forsytes were present; when a Forsyte diedbut no Forsyte had as yet died; they did not die; death being contrary to their principles, they took precautions against it, the instinctive precautions of highly vitalised persons who resent encroachments on their property."

-- John Galsworthy

#Principles Quotes #Married Quotes #Born Quotes

“I try to live in the moment, every moment.”
“I'm not bound to be in aviation at all. I'm here only because I love the sky and flying more than anything else on earth. Of course there's danger; but a certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life. I don't believe in taking foolish chances' but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.”
“The only one who can tell you "You can't" is you. And you don't have to listen.-Nike”
“Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them? There are who in the path of social life Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun, And sting the soul.”
“Before you know it you'll be my age telling your own granddaughter the story of your life and you wanna make it an interesting one, don't you? You wanna be able to tell her some adventures, some excitements, some something. How you live your life, little one, is a gift for those who come after you, a kind of inheritance.”

Source : Cristina Garcia (2009). “I Wanna Be Your Shoebox”, p.44, Simon and Schuster
“I am not saying this to serve as a justification for the things [Pablo Escobar] did, but rather to demonstrate the context of his situation and the reason for his actions, for which only he is responsible for. I think it was very difficult for him to try to bring down the very criminal organization that he had created and by the time he wanted to stop, he was unable to.”

Source : Source: harvardpolitics.com
“Yes I am finally hanging up my boots for good,”

Source : "Manchester United's Paul Scholes retires for second time at 38", www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2013.
“If there is a class war - and there is - it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and skill. ... it is not freedom that Conservatives want; what they want is the sort of freedom that will maintain existing inequalities or restore lost ones.”

Source : "Conservative Essays" by M. Cowling, Cassell, ("The Present Position"), 1978.

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