"Freedom doesn't become 'lost' through abuse; freedom is lost through our failure to exercise it."

-- Elf Sternberg

#Exercise Quotes #Abuse Quotes #Lost Quotes

“...the amazing exhibition of oil which has characterized the last twenty years, and will probably characterize the next ten or twenty years, is nevertheless, not only geologically but historically, a temporary and vanishing phenomenon...”
“The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.”
“It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their master is one of perpetual confident boredom. All they betray of the hidden life is by means of symbol; if it were not for the recurring evidence of murder â€“ the disemboweled rabbits, the headless flickers, the torn squirrels â€“ we should forever imagine our cats to be simple pets whose highest ambition is to sleep in the best soft chair, whose worst crime is to sharpen their claws on carpeting.”
“If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.”

Source : 'Politicians, Socialism and Historians' (1980) ch. 33
“If I had my own Neverland it would probably be the coolest place in the world. You could do anything you want there. There would be trees everywhere.”
“The Occident has never found it easy to grasp the strange netherworld of spirits that followers of Islam universally believe exist in a realm overlaid our own.”
“The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another.”
“I have a background in theater. At the time I read The Loved Ones script, I was playing Catherine the Great of Russia onstage. Straight after that, I played Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire and Isabella in Measure for Measure.”

Source : "Next Factor Q&A: 'The Loved Ones' Star Robin McLeavy". Interview with Robert DeSalvo, www.mtv.com. June 11, 2012.

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