"Please do not strain yourself, Miss Doyle. I won't have my girls going cross-eyed in the name of art."

-- Libba Bray

#Girl Quotes #Art Quotes #Names Quotes

“If you were disabled in Russia, you had to re-register every year, and it took up to six months to re-register, so people who lost limbs in Afghanistan had to prove that their leg hadn't grown back.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return.”

Source : "Six Years". Book by Harlan Coben, books.google.ru. April 25, 2013.
“What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of what is already known. Art is what pulls on the next age. Iâ€™m not saying that my art is that, but that it would be good if it could be.”

Source : Andy Couturier (2010). “A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance”, p.278, Stone Bridge Press
“One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism”
“The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing to concede; and when constant companionship ceases to suit the convenience of both parties, the chances are that it will be dropped on the first favourable opportunity.”

Source : Hester Lynch Piozzi (1861). “Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)”, p.100
“When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world banking system was being set up here. A super-state controlled by international bankers and international industrialists acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure. Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers but the truth is - The Fed has usurped the government!!”
“A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish spies might reasonably be regarded with suspicion. But suspicion of what?”

Source : Eric Ambler (2009). “The mask of Dimitrios”, Penguin Classics
“In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I'm gonna stand my ground, and I won't back down...”

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