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Other Quotes by Paula McLain
- I also liked to look around at the houses surrounding the park and wonder about the people who filled them, what kinds of marriages they…
- On December 8, 1921, when the Leopoldina set sail for Europe, we were on board. Our life together had finally begun. We held on to…
- Why is it every other person you meet says they're an artist? A real artist doesn't need to gas on about it, he doesn't have…
- More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn't want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and…
- Ernest once told me that the word paradise was a Persian words that meant walled garden. I knew then that he understood how necessary the…
- People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He stopped believing.
- How unbelievably naive we both were that night. We clung hard to each other, making vows we couldn't keep and should never have spoken aloud.…
- Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind.
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour