"I would say Tony Blair is very much a lapdog. I'm terribly scared that when he finally goes - and we can only hope it's soon - that he will be remembered for all these terrible things that he's done. Which is kind of a scary thing for a Labor Prime Minister."

-- Thea Gilmore

#Scary Quotes #Done Quotes #Scared Quotes

“He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that the grim reality of impending death can be talked away by trying to invest in the present reality of life. I didnâ€™t believe that at the time, but now I do. By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.”
“We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.”

Source : Frank Moore Colby (1921). “The Margin of Hesitation”
“Christians don't seem to be as aware of, or as sensitive to, the dire state of humanity as they are about the pleasant growth of their Christian walk.”

Source : Interview with Don Gillespie, www.larrynorman.uk.com. 1980.
“True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.”
“The surplus wealth we have gained to some extent at least belongs to our fellow beings; we are only the temporary custodians of our fortunes, and let us be careful that no just complaint can be made against our stewardship.”
“Map reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of heaven.”
“Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.”

Source : "Peter Carey: making it up as he goes along" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.
“Four!" I call out. Why am I calling a number? Oh yes. Because that's his name. â€” Tris.”

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