"There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin: I will die in the last ditch."

-- William III of England

#Country Quotes #War Quotes #Mean Quotes

“I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're fifty-one or sixty-one. They should write other novels first, to learn their craft; they shouldn't cut their teeth on the valuable material of childhood because they'll never have better material, ever, to work with.”
“When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.”
“I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength”
“But I get frightened sometimes," she admitted."I know. Fear is only fear, though.""And somehow you live without it.""No," he corrected her. "You live with it.”

Source : Nicole Mones (2007). “Lost in Translation”, p.251, Delta
“We are the "can do" country. We adjust to situations better than any people in the history of the world... We adjust to change.”
“If there's an energy between two people it doesn't matter what you look like or what you do for a living or where you live.”

Source : "Jennie Garth on '90210,' Amanda Bynes, Peter Facinelli" By Katie McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. December 11, 2012.
“Less volatile stocks tend to have negative abnormal profits; more volatile stocks tend to have positive abnormal profits.”

Source : "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 11, The Negative Payoff to Risk, p. 113, 1999.
“She looks at herself in the mirror. The idea is to look sexy again. And for whom exactly? Yourself, of course. Yes, well, that's all wonderfully self-affirming and very strong-minded as any decent woman should be these days, but let's just face facts here and say that when a woman - no, when a person is thinking about feeling sexy, it is always with the idea of someone else in mind.”

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