"She had sacrificed her childhood to save her brothers; she loved her family above all else, and her spirits yearned to return home once more, to the wild forest and the land of mystic tales and ancient spirits whence he had taken her. That was the place of her heart, and if he loved her, he must let her go."

-- Juliet Marillier

#Brother Quotes #Taken Quotes #Home Quotes

“On that very night, the night of the greatest suffering that has ever taken place in the world or that ever will take place, the Savior said, "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you... Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." (John 14:27) I submit to you, that may be one of the Savior's commandments that is, even in the hearts of otherwise faithful Latter-day Saints, almost universally disobeyed; and yet I wonder whether our resistance to this invitation could be any more grievous to the Lord's merciful heart.”

Source : Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.3633, Delphi Classics
“The basic premise of taste, as Stephen Bayley, the cultural critic, said, is that taste is that which does not alienate your peers. Most people want to fit in with their tribe in some way or another, so they give off signals, whether it's with their clothes, their behavior, their car, their whatever, and gain status. Every tribe has a hierarchy, and that's what taste is: it's an unconscious display of who you are, and where you want to be.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.”
“If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.”

Source : "Alfred Brendel, A Personal 75th Birthday Selection" by Anthony Holden, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2006.
“If your only arbiter of anything is money, really you should... go and rob banks.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this: I am a child of destiny who will unite East and West and change the world.”
“Bloggers intent on self-expression which renders no service to readers don't get read.”

Source : Source: speechwriting-ghostwriting.typepad.com
“Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.”

Source : Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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