"In general, the bigger a mountain the older it is. The biggest mountains were built before any others, because when they were built there was incomparably more flammable material within the Earth. Over the many thousands of years that have passed, the quantity of flammable material has doubtless decreased."

-- Mikhail Lomonosov

#Years Quotes #Mountain Quotes #Earth Quotes

“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”
“Ladies and Gentlemen...we are floating in Space!”
“I don't really like groups that make the same statement over and over again. It's good, but kind of predictable.”
“Been there, done that Sold crack, got jacked Got shot, came back Jumped on Dre's back!”

Source : Song: Westside Story F.T 50 Cent, Album: The Documentary
“We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms like this lounge with its cracked plastic sofa and Cinzano ashtrays, where the cafe curtains cover blank concrete. In rooms like this, with so little time, we prepare our gestures, get them by heart so we can do them when we're frightened in the face of Doom.”

Source : Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.159, Macmillan
“The chief evil with relation to the body is love for the body and pitying it. This takes away all the soul's authority over the body and makes the soul the slave of the body. And on the contrary, one who does not spare the body will not be disturbed in whatever he does by apprehensions born of blind love of life. How fortunate is one who is trained to this from childhood!”

Source : "Raising Them Right: A Saint's Advice on Raising Children".
“Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.”

Source : 'Diary' 9 November 1665
“The only thing I feel passionate about is my wife.”

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