Fortner Fine Quotes

#1. The definition of a true friend is not someone who swoops in when you're going through a rough patch. True friendship is when someone can appreciate your happiness - celebrate your happiness, even when she's not necessarily happy herself.

Sarah Jio

#2. Lavish spending cloaks the dark side of generosity

Augustine Of Hippo

#3. I leaned against the carved banisters and listened to the music and felt quite different from any way I have ever felt before
softer, very beautiful and as if a great many men were in love with me and I might very easily be in love with them.

Dodie Smith

#4. A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him.

Akbar

#5. Often seeing the success she had with young and old men and women Pierre could not understand why he did not love her.

Leo Tolstoy

#6. You're much better off to buy fresh fish from a market as opposed to buying something that's been frozen and processed and covered in breadcrumbs.

Curtis Stone

#7. Every country's different.
All that happy talk you hear about understanding one another
and people everywhere being basically the same, it's all a bunch
of crap. Everybody's different. And if you don't realize that, you're
never going to experience anything truly new.

Mitsuyo Kakuta

#8. We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.

Patricia Ireland

#9. Ancient literature is a rich history.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. Well - all good things must come to an end, they say. So American freedom will come to an end, too, sooner or later. How will it end? As all freedoms end: by the surrender of our destinies to the highest laws.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C., area were required to live among themselves.

Ed Smith

#12. Do not trust an architect: he will always try to talk you into an atrium.

Elizabeth McCracken