"All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm ..."

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Source : Letter to Sir William Temple, October 1653

Dorothy Osborne

#Letters Quotes #Easy Quotes #Charm Quotes

“In the States, you have the First Amendment. People feel the freedom to speak and the right to be heard. And they kind of push the message: "It's a free country." Everybody has the right to say whatever they want to say. But in the Middle East, culture is your guide. You have to ask, is it culturally okay to say something like that? Is it culturally okay, for example, to show a woman giving birth? As Arabs watching such a scene in an American film it's okay, but when it comes to the Arabic context, we're like, "How dare you?" So it's how you present it.”
“In all things that you do, consider the end.”
“Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.”

Source : Matthew J. Kirby (2011). “Icefall”, p.267, Scholastic Inc.
“The ocean is not just blank blue space but rather the habitat for amazing wildlife, and we have to take care how we use it. If we want to keep having the goods and services it provides, we have to treat it more carefully in terms of fishing and dumping.”
“I challenge anybody to show me an example of bias in Fox News Channel.”
“That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.”
“That's one of the most exciting things about Michigan's future. We need to, we must capitalize on our alternative-energy vehicles that we can produce right here.”
“Life is like a great jazz riff. You sense the end the very moment you were wanting it to go on forever.”

Source : Sheila Ballantyne (1988). “Life on Earth: Stories”, Simon & Schuster

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