"Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue."

-- Izaak Walton

#Family Quotes #Empathy Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.”
“Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.”
“People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.”
“Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.”
“Popularity isn't the end-all, be-all. What matters far more is that you stick to your principles, that you stand up and you live a life of integrity.”
“I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to.”
“After all the fears, the warnings, after all, a woman's mistakes are different from a girl's. They are written by fire on stone. They are a trait and not an error.”

Source : Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.76, Hachette UK
“It is, of course, clear that a country with a large foreign population must endeavour, through its schools, to assimilate the children of immigrants. It is, however, unfortunate that a large part of this process should be effected by means of a somewhat blatant nationalism.”

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