"Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats."

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Source : Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.197, Bantam

Connie Willis

#Cat Quotes #Threat Quotes

“There is always a better way.”
“I'll go with the guy with one house. The guy with one house is scared about losing his house.”
“To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.”
“Those brain-zapped kids werenâ€™t the only - or maybe even the worst - enemy.”
“For states' rights advocates, the Constitution is like a contract that is openly violated by one party with impunity. On paper, the states remain sovereign powers, while in reality the federal government appears able to dictate everything from the ingredients of school lunches to speed limits. Congress now routinely collects taxes in order to return the money to the states with conditions on their conforming to federal demands.”
“Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the movie finally began, they started crying. Mainly because they realized that it's 22 years later, and they still haven't lost their virginity.”
“We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.”

Source : Mary E DeMuth (2012). “Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus”, p.48, Thomas Nelson
“It reveals us to ourselves, it represents those modulations and temperamental changes which escape all verbal analysis, it utters what must else remain forever unuttered and unutterable; it feeds that deep, ineradicable instinct within us of which all art is only the reverberated echo, that craving to express, through the medium of the senses, the spiritual and eternal realities which underlie them.”

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