"The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever."

-- Plutarch

#Strong Quotes #Wine Quotes #Men Quotes

“The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now”
“I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album Life Is Good, and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.”
“The Cicada sing an endless song in the long grass, smells run along the earth and falling stars run over the sky, like tears over a cheek. You are the privileged person to whom everything is taken. The Kings of Tarshish shall bring gifts.”
“For someone grieving, moving forward is the challenge. Because after extreme loss, you want to go back.”

Source : Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.115, Penguin
“And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes [in animal and vegetal substances]; matter assumes new forms, the destruction of one order of beings tends to the conservation of another, solution and consolidation, decay and renovation, are connected, and whilst the parts of the system, continue in a state of fluctuation and change, the order and harmony of the whole remain unalterable.”

Source : "The Collected Works: Discourses delivered before the Royal Society".
“Every day I studied the nude, and movement in the streets and in the shops. Out of the naturalistic surface with all its variations I wanted to derive the pictorially determined surface.”

Source : "Voices of German Expressionism" edited by Victor H. Miesel, Tate publishing, London, (p. 18), 2003.
“My only agenda for the next two years is the same as the one Iâ€™ve had since the day I swore an oath on the steps of this Capitolâ€Šâ€”â€Što do what I believe is best for America.”
“My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.”

Source : "Chris Isaak: 'My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck!'". Interview with Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.

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