"I can say now is that sneaking up on people is a major delight in my old age, but it always has been. A desire, even a need, to shock."

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Patricia McConnell

#People Quotes #Age Quotes #Desire Quotes

“Principles have a way of yielding to power.”
“Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design.”

Source : "A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy". Book by John Herschel, 1830.
“Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan.”
“My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.”
“The gift of an image is that it provides a place to watch your soul.”
“My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.”
“I would be annoyed if I were any more in tune with modern sensibilities. I was shaped differently. The world in which I grew up was Texan and Southern, and it had many, many failings. I think I've gotten rid of most of the bad things in myself from that earlier age, but I don't adjust to the way things are progressing now.”
“Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed and then discovering the brakes are out of order.”

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