"We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared to abandon its terrible delights."

-- H. Rider Haggard

#Delight Quotes #Moments Quotes #Reason Quotes

“Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Center, a speaking Voice. . . . Life from the Center is a life of unhurried peace and power. It is simple. It is serene. It is amazing. It is radiant.”
“Never be easy for any president to deal with any Congress. But republicans got to work together. We got to get things done.”
“Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.”
“My family is out of the ordinary in our physical lifestyle and the day-to-day things that we deal with, but my approach to them is pretty rational and sound. And I'm the quiet one! It's very different from my performing life.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In most relationships, somebody cares about the other one more and that's usually why you get out of a relationship because it's not reciprocated.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Itâ€™s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state.”
“Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.”
“We are accused here of polygamy, and actions the most indelicate, obscene, and disgusting, such that none but a corrupt and depraved heart could have contrived. These things are too outrageous to admit to belief.”

Source : Orson Pratt, John Taylor, William Gibson (O.B.E.) (1851). “A Series of Pamphlets”

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