"Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away."

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Source : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#Long Quotes #Passed Away Quotes #Contracts Quotes

“I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google's 'two-step' authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood that your account can be hacked from afar.”
“None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other we're safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is.”

Source : David Guterson (2009). “Snow Falling on Cedars”, p.109, A&C Black
“If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.”
“A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.”
“The original necessity for the ceaseless presence of the woman to maintain that altar fire - and it was an altar fire in very truth at one period - has passed with the means of prompt ignition; the matchbox has freed the housewife from that incessant service, but the feeling that women should stay at home is with us yet.”
“I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!”
“Anybody with skin issues knows that that's a very sensitive subject, and that's why I've never shared that I have vitiligo because I do.”
“We must remain in love and develop in love; that must be the compelling force in our lives. It is possible to love everyone. When you sense you lack love, you must quite simply pray.”

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