"War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge. This may be bad, but it is human nature; it is the clay as it came from the hands of the Potter."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#War Quotes #Hate Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“I know everything except myself.”
“If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.”

Source : Jane Gardam (2013). “Old Filth”, p.115, Hachette UK
“Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life ...”

Source : Penelope Gilliatt (1980). “Three-Quarter Face: Reports & Reflections”, Coward McCann
“There is no hate such as that born out of love betrayed- and my brain screamed out for revenge.”

Source : Virginia C. Andrews (2004). “Flowers in the Attic”
“Let him tell us he's never been hurt, but that's the definition of getting hurt.”
“I keep writing childrenâ€™s books, I keep making childrenâ€™s books, because I still have them inside of me.”
“The Light of the Lord's Transfiguration does not come into being or cease to be, nor is it circumscribed or perceptible to the senses, even though for a short time on the narrow mountain top it was seen by human eyes. Rather, at that moment the initiated disciples of the Lord 'passed', as we have been taught, 'from flesh to spirit' by the transformation of their senses, which the Spirit wrought in them, and so they saw that ineffable light, when and as much as the Holy Spirit's power granted them to do so.”

Source : "The homilies".
“I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.”

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