"The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful ... Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory."

-- Milan Kundera

#Beautiful Quotes #Memories Quotes #Brain Quotes

“You know, I think what people want more than anything is they just want people to do what they say they're going to do.”

Source : "Meet the Congressman Who Confronted President Obama". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. January 31, 2010.
“Vision beyond your resources? Don't let fear dictate your decisions. If your vision is God-given, it will most definitely be beyond your ability and beyond your resources. The God who gives the vision is the same God who makes provision.”
“Yet the stones remain less real to those who cannot name them, or read the mute syllables graven in silica. To see a red stone is less than seeing it as jasper metamorphic quartz, cousin to the flint the Kiowa carved as arrowheads. To name is to know and remember.”

Source : Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.22, Macmillan
“I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.”
“And you've got a boy right there who looks at you like he would drink your bathwater if you'd ask him!”
“The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.”
“When, as today, there is a market in human organs, when fetuses are produced to make spare organs available, or to make progress in research and preventive medicine, many regard the human content of these practices as implicit. But the contempt for man that underlies it, when man is used and abused, leads -- like it or not -- to a descent into hell.”
“The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability.”

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