"[Responding to repeated questions about traveling in Africa without a husband:] I am looking for him."

-- Mary Kingsley

#Husband Quotes #Responding Quotes

“The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.”
“It is patience that reveals every grace to you, and it is through patience that the saints received all that was promised to them.”
“I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.”
“One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.”
“Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Dec 20, 2010
“My method of helping someone is saying, 'Wow, you look amazing. Let me help you look even better.' I think tearing someone down is an awful thing to do. It has a lasting impression on people.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.”
“The most brutal form of domestic violence is the violence against unborn children, and this particular bill would prohibit abortions after the fetus feels pain, which is 20 weeks and older.”

Source : "Kentucky State Rep. Joe Fischer: Abortion is ‘Most Brutal Form of Domestic Violence’" by Jonathan Meador, wfpl.org. January 14, 2014.

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