"Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does."

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Tahir Shah

#Country Quotes #House Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words donâ€™t have much faith in them and I am no exception â€“ especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far to relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home with these, because theyâ€™re scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a priest or a fool to use them with any confidence.”
“There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough.”
“A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark sun! A black eye is the best one.”

Source : William Rounseville Alger (1865). “The Poetry of the Orient”, p.228
“As a long-time British Airways advisor, I have seen first-hand that as a company they are committed to innovation, entrepreneurship and the Bay Area community. UnGrounded is strong proof of that commitment.”
“Space is hard - but worth it. We will persevere and move forward together.”
“Now we must learn to judge a society by its sounds...”
“We have got a very short time to turn climate change around otherwise we will all die.”

Source : Source: www.lidf.co.uk
“If we can feel confident in our goodness, it will illuminate our life and society”

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