"Love is short, forgetting is long, and understanding longer still."

-- Merle Shain

#Love Is Quotes #Long Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Understanding a situation doesn't always make it easier”
“It's wonderful to move forward technologically, but we cannot forget that we are human beings who thrive on relationships, who thrive on interconnectivity, who thrive on sharing your feelings and emotions.”
“A style similar to Song Hye Gyo's is my ideal type.”
“If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it had not that value it ought not to have such a law; and, therefore, all tender laws are tyrannical and unjust and calculated to support fraud and oppression.”
“Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.”
“It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be thirty; more touching to be forty; tragic to be fifty; and heartbreaking to be sixty. As to seventy, as to eighty, one would feel as one did during the last dance of a ball, tired but fey in the paling dawn, desperately making the most of each bar of music before one went home to bed.”
“Our allies in the Middle East know that the Islamic State is their fight - and they have asked for very specific things to help push back against ISIL.We must give our allies the help they need to confront and defeat this evil.”
“There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.”

Source : John Marsden (1998). “Checkers”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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