"If your language is confused, your intellect, if not your whole character, will almost certainly correspond."

-- Arthur Quiller-Couch

#Confused Quotes #Character Quotes #Language Quotes

“Cogswhallop glanced skeptically at the complex runes. "Are you sure this'll work, gen'ral?" "Of course I'm sure-" Ping. The silvery note echoed in the cramped room. Makenna felt her face turn scarlet.”
“Sometimes I think that everyone has a tragedy waiting for them, that the people buying milk in their pajamas or picking their noses at stoplights could be only moments away from disaster. That everyone's life, no matter how unremarkable, has a moment when it will become extraordinary - a single encounter after which everything that really matters will happen.”
“[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.”

Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.290, A&C Black
“You are the illusion, be anything you want to be!”
“In Britain, they have a lot of laws to protect you, and we enforce them very strongly so that our children can stay private figures, and the British press leave us alone, which is great. It means we can go on the Tube into the centre of London because it's quicker and more fun for the kids. We can do normal things.”
“It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.”
“Noone knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart.. it comes from being alive.”

Source : Richard Carlson (1992). “You can be happy no matter what”
“The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.”

Source : Eric J. Hobsbawm (1994). “Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991”

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