Mrs. Trotter made a sincere though wrong sound, while opening her handbag to look for help.
– Patrick White
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- A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas. – Victor Hugo
- Oh, poor, poor fellow!’ said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been. – EM Forster
- Religion tells you to be sincere to yourself and be sincere to everyone else otherwise you cannot assimilate [attain] religion. – Dada Bhagwan
- The man who is not -˜sincere’ to others is not -˜sincere’ to his own self! – Dada Bhagwan
- If you don’t stand sincere by your wordshow sincere can the people be?Take great care over words, treasure them.1.17 – Lao Tzu
- To help yourself, help others; to help others, help yourself. – Matshona Dhliwayo
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- Not one had ever passed judgement on my cheap handbag to my face. But then, this is a reserved country. – Caitlin Moran
- The actual handbag is neither here nor there– it’s what you keep in it that’s the most important thing. – Caitlin Moran
- My handbag turned into a diaper bag for the chronically ill. – Tracey Berkowitz
- …she had a new handbag to go with her new attitude. – Cara Marsi
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- Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you. – Anne Lamott
- Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Help me. Please, help me. If you really exist, you skinny jew bastard, help me kill myself. – Hubert Selby Jr
- Right time, right place, right people equals success.Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history. – Idries Shah
- There is no wrong answer. Even so, it is easy to receive wrong results, simply by asking the wrong question. – Brunonia Barry
- Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. – Mark Twain
- The fact that good people can be forced to do wrong doesn’t make them less good. But it also doesn’t make the wrong less wrong. – Ovadya ben Malka
- I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side. – GK Chesterton
- Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feels the least wrong. – Colleen Hoover
- you may be wrong to be right in the wrong direction, but, what is the wrong direction? – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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- On the matters where your country is wrong, don’t take side with your country! Because it is always wrong to be on the side of wrong! – Mehmet Murat ildan
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- If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter. – William Paul Young
- In writing I am seduced by the sound of words and by the interaction of their sound and sense. – Barbara W Tuchman
- Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance. – Suzanne Finnamore
- If he is a God of sound judgment, that sound mind must be revealed in people who identify themselves with him on daily basis – Sunday Adelaja
- In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound. – Dejan Stojanovic
- Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple. – Julius Lester
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- The most deafening sound in all creation, is the sound of absolute silence. – Taylor Schake
- Divine sound is the cause of all manifestation. The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe. – Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Do not confuse reasons which sound good with good, sound reasons. – Anonymous
- I no longer hear the faint sound of my heart beat. Then I hear the sound of my fathers voice saying, come, be silent with me! – Jordan Hoechlin
- Ruth knew very well what the killer thought he had heard: he’d heard the sound of someone trying not to make a sound – that’s what he’d heard. – John Irving