"Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection"

-- Jack Butler Yeats

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Affection Quotes

“Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe.”
“No, I don't belong to a retirement community.”
“I cannot tell what I am as much afraid of, as a woman who invariably washes on Monday. It is a kind of key to character; and if her mouth is not puckered and her brow wrinkled, they will be, unless she repents.”

Source : Jane Grey SWISSHELM (1853). “Letters to Country Girls”, p.39
“When Veronica Mars was canceled, the following season of pilots for The CW had been announced, and one was Gossip Girl. I read it, and I knew I was sort of old to play any of the kids. I called Dawn Ostroff -- who was the head of The CW at the time -- and said, 'Hey, I did so much narration on Veronica Mars, can I narrate this show? And she said, 'Hey, that's a very good idea.' They knew I had a younger voice, they liked me and they knew I'd show up for work, and I guess that was all I really needed. It was so clear to me how sassy and catty she needed to be.”
“Islam will win with or without you, but without Islam you will get lost and lose.”
“If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.”

Source : Russell Kirk (1986). “The Assault on religion: commentaries on the decline of religious liberty”, Univ Pr of Amer
“we do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if 'tis not granted to us, and then we kneel and kneel and believe, because we must have someone to ask help from.”
“I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties in some men and some other animals.”

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