"Relations are errors that Nature makes. / Your spouse you can put on the shelf. / But your friends, dear friends, are the quaint mistakes / You always commit yourself."

-- Phyllis McGinley

#Friends Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Errors Quotes

“It takes courage to have a conscience when you seem to see others getting something tangible out of not bothering to struggle with the morality of a situation. It gets frustrating and demoralizing. This is precisely where character comes in. All throughout history special people have felt compelled to do what they objectively saw as right and good - even in the face of humiliation or rejection or expulsion or torture or death. That is because they believed that certain ideas were more important than individual well-being.”
“I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.”
“Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster.”
“I sometimes think we deserve to die, we're all so ***** stupid.”

Source : Greg Bear (2014). “The Forge of God”, p.239, Open Road Media
“I'm just incredibly interested in people.”
“Growing up, I wasn't allowed dolls, and my brothers weren't allowed guns. I inherited my brothers' clothes. I was never dressed in pink, and they were never dressed in blue; there were none of those rules that people still bizarrely subscribe to.”

Source : "What I know about men". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2008.
“You know that we are lost when babies are addicted to drugs when they are born.”
“Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.”

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