"What is the motive which operates in every man's breast to counteract the impulse towards the gratification of his wants and appetites?"

-- Jean-Baptiste Say

#Men Quotes #Want Quotes #Appetite Quotes

“Tradition remains alive only when we struggle with it.”
“What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?”

Source : Jane Addams (2010). “Peace and Bread in Time of War”, p.85, University of Illinois Press
“In silence one can receive more because all one's activities become concentrated at one point. There is only one real rhythm; in silence you hear it. When you live to the rhythm of this silence, you become it, slowly; everything you do, you do to it.”
“People, by nature, have a tendency to snap. We get upset at things. We get angry. I'm sure everybody has said, once or twice in their life, "God, I just want to kill you!" That's just a thought that we have. That's a natural thought. It is only when people act upon that, that it becomes this huge deal.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.”
“Sanders was a friend of chickens.”
“cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!”

Source : Thomas Carlyle, Charles Richard Sanders, Clyde de L. Ryals, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Kenneth J. Fielding (1970). “The collected letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle”
“I was a super shy, shy kid, so that was kind of my way of expressing myself - to mimic what I saw on TV. I was a bit of a weird kid, but luckily my parents encouraged it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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