"I do beg you to have some regard for my pride. A million years? I assure you I would stop asking after the first thousand."

-- Mary Balogh

#Pride Quotes #Years Quotes #Asking Quotes

“A person of knowledge and power never goes out looking for battles. All their battles are within.”
“I close my eyes, and think of water.”

Source : James Wright (2011). “Collected Poems”, p.129, Wesleyan University Press
“Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.”
“Don't tell me about worth," Nita said. "My father commands fleets." "The wealthy measure everything with the weight of their money." Tool leaned close. "Sadna once risked herself and the rest of her crew to help me escape from an oil fire... Your father commands fleets. And thousands of half-men, I am sure. But would he risk himself to save a single one?”
“If you stop building stars, which we never do, you wouldn't be in business.”
“I support [FRAME's] objectives, largely because I do not believe that results of tests conducted on animals will be neccessarily relevant to human beings...”
“At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling.”
“The aster greets us as we pass With her faint smile.”

Source : Sarah Helen Whitman (1853). “Hours of Life: And Other Poems”, p.147

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