"To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead -somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man -somewhere these, too, come together."

-- Marguerite Duras

#Love Quotes #Children Quotes #Believe Quotes

“God will take you through hell, just to get you to heaven.”

Source : Song: No Matter What, 2008
“Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.”
“The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.”
“From the Berlin tenement reform law of 1897 to H. P. Berlage's plan for Amsterdam South of 1917, designers and theorists in Germany and Holland moved toward the development of a perimeter residential block that would preserve the plastic continuity of the street while opening up the resultant courtyard for use as an enclosed semi-public space.”
“The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.”
“If, since the start, I'd played well and put in some good matches it would all have been too simple.”
“After 9/11, it became clear that we [the United States] had to do several things to have a successful strategy to win the global war on terror, specifically that we had to go after the terrorists wherever we might find them, that we also had to go after state sponsors of terror, those who might provide sanctuary or safe harbor for terror.”
“Shut up," Morgan said, whirling on the woman and pointing the sword at her. "Shut up, you shrill harpy, before I aid you in doing so by means of a dozen ways you won't care for in the least." AdhÃ©mar's fiancÃ©e fell, blessedly, silent.”

Source : Lynn Kurland (2010). “Star of the Morning”, p.240, Penguin

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