"If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation."

-- Robert D. Kaplan

#Long Quotes #Empires Quotes #Looks Quotes

“It is not that the people want a BJP government or Modi as PM. The Nation wants to teach a lesson to those who have ruined the nation.”
“When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.”
“It's such a paradox for them to say, "Oh, my God, I've thrown away my life," and continue to do that for the last month of their life. I shake them, physically shake them, and say, "What about now? What about now?"”
“This is not love. It is a crime... You can't look the other way just because you have not experienced domestic violence with your own flesh.”
“For the curse of Cain, the curse of being an outcast and a wanderer over the face of the earth has been removed...”
“Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.”
“Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.”
“Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.”

Source : Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.89, Taylor & Francis

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