Clara E. Laughlin quotes

“The great glory of travel, to me, is not just what I see that's new to me in countries visited, but that in almost every one of them I change from an outsider looking in to an insider looking out.”
-- Clara E. Laughlin

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“I don't know how many years it was before I arrived at a formulated philosophy that the happiest thing to do, always, when visiting an individual or a country, is to admit, by word or manner, how much I'm finding there that my life had lacked hitherto”
-- Clara E. Laughlin

#Country Quotes #Philosophy Quotes #Years Quotes

“Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.”

“It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.”

“Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.”

Source : Alexis De Veaux (1974). “Spirits in the street”

“Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.”

Source : Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.75, Hachette UK

“Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.”

“I've always been interested in the outsider.”

“Fear that man who fears not God.”

“Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.”

“The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past.”

Source : Alfred Bunn (1846). “The grand serious opera, entitled The maid of Artois. Words”, p.27

“My speed is a gift from God, and I run for His glory. Whatever I do, it all comes from him.”