"I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by neces-sity."

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Jeremy Collier

#Book Quotes #Fate Quotes #Despair Quotes

“Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.”

Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.90, Rowman & Littlefield
“Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.”

Source : "Web Access... David Benioff". www.bbc.co.uk.
“Usually the German translators do something terrible, especially with Tom Wolfe, which is that they make it local. So if the characters are from Harlem, the translators put all this Berlin slang into their mouths, and that's just terrible. You cringe when you read that. But there really is no good solution to the problem, except learning English.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Most of the time I meet my trainer at the gym and we do a lot of everything: weights circuit with cardio, football drills, sprinting with weights on the treadmill.”
“More and more Congressmen now stay in Washington all year-round because they can't stay at home under the laws they've passed.”
“From the moon, the Earth is so small and so fragile, and such a precious little spot in that Universe, that you can block it out with your thumb. Then you realize that on that spot, that little blue and white thing, is everything that means anything to you â€” all of history and music and poetry and art and death and birth and love, tears, joy, games, all of it right there on that little spot that you can cover with your thumb. And you realize from that perspective that youâ€™ve changed forever, that there is something new there, that the relationship is no longer what it was.”

Source : "Reflections From Paris and Beirut" by Samie Al-Achrafi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2015.
“People are just fed up with these politicians that get up there, promise something, don't commit to their promises after they get elected. And it's all about - you know what it's all about? Filling their buddies' pockets full of money, sole-sourced deals, giving contracts. It's all about the money.”

Source : Source: www.citynews.ca
“I'd rather be called a boy and play with paper airplanes than be called a man and play with a girl's heart.”

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