"Want of passion is, I think, a very striking characteristic of Americans, not unrelated to their predilection for violence. For very few people truly have a passionate desire to achieve, and violence serves as a kind of substitute."

-- Marguerite Yourcenar

#Passion Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“It is Love and the Lover that live eternally - Don't lend your heart to anything else; all else is borrowed.”
“Songwriters tend to make records instead of talking to people.”
“No decision about me, without me.”

Source : "Andrew Lansley promises information revolution in NHS shakeup" by Sarah Boseley, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2010.
“I am convinced that we must train not only the head, but the heart and hand as well.”
“in her dreams, blood tasted like fizzy strawberry soda. If you drank it too fast, you got brain freeze. When she was older, after she'd licked a cut on her finger, the taste of that became the taste in her dreams: copper and tears.”
“How was I to know idiocy was only a temporary condition, especially in your case? It never has been before!”
“Iâ€™m stuck babysitting turtle eggs while a volleyball player slash grease monkey slash aquarium volunteer tries to hit on me.â€ Iâ€™m not hitting on you,â€ he protested. No?â€ Believe me, youâ€™d know if I was hitting on you. You wouldnâ€™t be able to stop yourself from succumbing to my charms.”
“Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.”

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