"And trust dies from ifs and buts"

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Source : Aidan Chambers (2012). “Dying to Know You”, p.126, Random House

Aidan Chambers

#Ifs And Quotes

“You have to move beyond that vision of the way your life has always looked and begin to picture your life as you want it to look.”
“Develop your talent, man, and leave the world something. Records are really gifts from people. To think that an artist would love you enough to share his music with anyone is a beautiful thing”
“When a man loves a woman, he'll spend his very last dime tryin' to hold on to what he needs.”

Source : Song: When a Man Loves a Woman
“The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.”

Source : William Falconer (2012). “Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)”, p.253, BoD – Books on Demand
“From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soulessness of men”
“When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations, they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they understood this well, and, in their conversations with me, they made no particular attempt to conceal the factâ€¦ I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres and persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant when compared to the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915.”
“There is in the American Government...a want of unity.... The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have one purpose or obey one will so that instead of making steady way the vessel may pursue a devious or zigzag course, and sometimes merely turn round and round in the water.”
“I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.”

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