Temporaneously Quotes & Sayings

My soul abhors a falsehood — Horace Walpole

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations. — Alice Munro

Planning a wedding is hell. Things are said. Doors are slammed. Quarrels about the most inconsequential things
yellow tablecloths or white? hors d'oeuvres set out on tables or passed around on trays?
are often pitched at such a level that it seems the combatants may never recover from them. Much of the anxiety, of course, is tribal. It is wrenching to have to open the sacred circle to admit an outsider. — Caitlin Flanagan

The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist. — Isaiah Berlin

Anyone that looked like that wouldn't need to tie up girls and imprison them in order to get them to marry him — Cassandra Clare

As a 7-year-old child, I saw the Wall being erected. No one - although it was a stark violation of international law - believed at the time that one ought to intervene militarily in order to protect citizens of the GDR and whole Eastern bloc, of the consequences of that - namely, to live in lack of freedom for many, many years. — Angela Merkel

When children feel comfortable asking for help, they know they matter. They see that others care and want to be there for them. They understand that they are not alone and can gain some control by reaching out for support. They realize that pain is not permanent; things can get better. — Sheryl Sandberg

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world. — Tony Judt

We all are manufacturers in a way - making good, making trouble or making excuses. — H. V. Adolt