"We must forgive our enemies. I can truly say that not a day has passed since the war began that I have not prayed for them."

-- Robert E. Lee

#War Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Forgiving Quotes

“I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy.”
“What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.”

Source : "Richard Rorty. What made him a crucial American philosopher?" by Stephen Metcalf, www.slate.com. June 18, 2007.
“That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.”
“Before Christ comes, it is useless to expect to see the perfect church.”
“I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.”

Source : Nextbook Interview, September 14, 2004.
“People will buy anything at jumble sales,' I said. 'At the Evacuated Children Charity Fair a woman bought a tree branch that had fallen on the table.”
“How does the phrase radical Islamic terrorism link all the believers of a faith to terrorism? If I said radical Christian terrorism, does that mean I as a Catholic are a terrorist?”
“Happiness is like water. We’re always trying to grab onto it, but it’s always slipping between our fingers”

Source : Chinelo Okparanta (2013). “Happiness, Like Water”, p.144, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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