"There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble."

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Mavis Gallant

#People Quotes #Half Quotes #World Quotes

“The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?”
“In the difficult moments of life, Christians can turn to the Mother of God and find protection and care.”
“The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish delights that the egoist locked up in himself as in a box, and the slothful man like a mollusk in his shell, will be eternally deprived of. He adopts as his own all the occupations, all the joys and all the sorrows that chance offers.”
“I don't find myself in moral turmoil. I'm not given to turmoil of any kind.”

Source : "Malcolm Turnbull, Member for Wentworth". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. May 30, 2010.
“We must not only protect the country side and save it from destruction, we must restore what has been destroyed and salvage the beauty and charm of our cities ... Once our natural splendor is destroyed, it can never be recaptured. And once man can no longer walk with beauty or wonder at nature, his spirit will wither and his sustenance be wasted.”
“The audiences are really different in general. Even in the same country or in the same city, from one venue to another, the audiences can be totally different.”
“Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn't mean you do it.”
“Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.”

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