"The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you ever utter the words, 'We've always done it that way,' I urge you to wash out your mouth with soap."

-- Anna Quindlen

#Voice Quotes #Doe Quotes #Done Quotes

“If you tell the truth, it becomes a part of your past. If you lie, it becomes a part of your future.”
“For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.”

Source : "Liam Neeson Only Wrestles Real Wolves" by Mike Banka, www.elle.com. January 27, 2012.
“Marseilles isn't a city for tourists. There's nothing to see. Its beauty can't be photographed. It can only be shared. It's a place where you have to take sides, be passionately for or against. Only then can you see what there is to see. And you realize, too late, that you're in the middle of a tragedy. An ancient tragedy in which the hero is death. In Marseilles, even to lose you have to know how to fight.”

Source : Jean-Claude Izzo (2016). “Total Chaos”, p.28, Penguin
“Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.”
“Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the needs and activities of our mundane lives. But few would deny that there is another dimension of human existence which transcends the mundane: call it the soul, the spirit: it is that part of the human frame which sees the shimmer of the numinous.”
“The world is rated R, and no one is checking IDs. Do not try to make it G by imagining the shadows away. Do not try to hide your children from the world forever, but do not try to pretend there is no danger. Train them. Give them sharp eyes and bellies full of laughter. Make them dangerous. Make them yeast, and when theyâ€™ve grown, they will pollute the shadows.”

Source : "Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World".
“Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.”
“Do people think Swedes are cool? I think they think you're cool in spite of you being Swedish. But the good thing with being Swedish is that we're melancholic.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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