"Friends are a weird thing. It seems like they know all about you, but then they donâ€™t understand you at all."

-- Natsuo Kirino

#Weird Things Quotes

“Just as I suspected, my room does look different, post-eclipse. It looks smalled, like it can't contain me anymore. After all, I've got a whole new world to see.”
“Drinking goes with everything, there's always an excuse to drink. We sell beer and liquor 24/7/365 everywhere, you can buy a 5th of vodka at 3am on Easter Sunday if you want.”
“My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.”
“I feel like [terrorism] acts are un-Islamic. So to see that happen and somebody do that in the name of God, it just - and the religion that you practice, it just - it hurts your heart so deeply because it's such a misrepresentation of the faith.”
“Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in.”

Source : Joelle Charbonneau (2013). “The Testing Guide”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“A victory at Kursk would shine like a beacon to the world!”
“There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.”
“Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second.”

Source : Helen Hunt Jackson (2010). “Ramona”, p.150, Modern Library

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