"Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason"

-- Charles Dickens

#Good Friend Quotes #Trying Quotes #Disability Quotes

“My dad's side of the family ... they're a real bizarre bunch, going back to the original colonies. That side's got a real tough strain of alcoholism. It goes back generations and generations, so that you can't remember when there was a sober grandfather.”
“The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.”

Source : Felix Adler's Founding Address of New York Society for Ethical Culture, aeu.org. May 15, 1876.
“Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.”
“The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?”

Source : Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by William Orme”, p.11
“Really, Gin, did you have to ruin my suit?â€ he said. â€œThis was a Fiona Fine original.”
“In the past, 'Avatar' would have won because they [Oscar voters] loved to hand out awards to big productions, like 'Ben-Hur.' Today it's fashionable to give the Oscar to a small movie that nobody saw.”
“Old I may be, but, given the chance, I will learn.”
“One has to understand China correctly. Our management there consists of native Chinese, we produce locally and our suppliers also come from China. In this way, we too can also enjoy the cost advantages.”

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