"It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Women Quotes #Young Quotes #Young Women Quotes

“If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.”
“Hey man, Jaws was never my scene, and i don't like Star Wars”
“I live by the rule that you should follow your dreamsâ€¦no matter what you do, you should follow your dreams”
“We may find the Divine to be 3,000 times what we think it is now. It's like asking the tulip there to explain you. The tulip is a beautiful creation, with millions of atoms cooperating with each other to produce great beauty, but ask that tulip to talk about you, and it can't do it. It doesn't have those perceptive abilities. Wouldn't it be conceited to suggest that I had the abilities to describe the deity?”
“Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.”
“The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One answer is the unwillingness to restrain oneself. Everybody wants other people to be polite to them, but they want the freedom of not having to be polite to others.”
“Rich women are not too put upon by their children. You don't have to do all the things for a child that those women who had to stay at home did. My Ann had a French governess who took care of her until she was twelve years old and went off to boarding school.”
“Sometimes, it`s easier to tell a stranger something very personal. It`s like there`s less risk, opening yourself up to someone who doesn`t know you.”

Source : Linwood Barclay (2007). “No Time for Goodbye”, p.126, Bantam

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