"In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord."

-- Thor Heyerdahl

#Cutting Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Winning Quotes

“We are the choices we make.”

Source : "The Knife of Never Letting Go". Book by Patrick Ness, www.theguardian.com. 2008.
“And I, infinitesimaÂl being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind.”
“If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse.”
“I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.”

Source : "Ode to joy" by Kitty Empire, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2007.
“I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much superior to intellectual, that I ought to esteem one virtue more valuable than a hundred original thoughts.”

Source : William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.295
“And try to stay out of trouble with the ladies. Remember, they all have fathers and brothers and some of them have armies.”

Source : Jennifer Fallon (2007). “The Lion of Senet”, p.371, Spectra
“I've always been a fan of album covers with no writing on them and have used them a lot in my own groups.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The lesbian is a threatening reality for reality.”

Source : Nicole Brossard (1988). “The aerial letter”, Womens Pr

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