"Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt."

-- Stewart Udall

#Positive Quotes #Contempt Quotes #Concerned Quotes

“[On retirement savings:] Gone today, here tomorrow.”
“The evenings grew longer; kitchen windows stayed open after dinner and peepers could be heard in the marsh. Isabelle, stepping out to sweep her porch steps, felt absolutely certain that some wonderful change was arriving in her life. The strength of this belief was puzzling; what she was feeling, she decided, was really the presence of God.”

Source : Elizabeth Strout (2013). “Amy & Isabelle”, p.101, Simon and Schuster
“Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.”
“... a city where the Capitol Dome, perforated like a kitchen colander, is the symbol of how secrets are kept ...”
“God has told us Latter-day Saints that we shall be condemned if we do not enter into that principle of polygamy; and yet I have heard now and then (I am very glad to say that only a low such instances have come under my notice) a brother or a sister say, 'I am a Latter-day Saint, but I do not believe in polygamy.' Oh, what an absurd expression! What an absurd idea! A person might as well say, 'I am a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, but I do not believe in him.'”
“Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill.”

Source : "Prologues". Republished in "Dramatic Works", 1739.
“When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years”
“Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other things like unconsumed portions of chicken layer's mash, and the sweepings of racing stables, packing the mixture in little bags and selling them in health food shops.”

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