"One of the effects it [cocaine] had on my personality - my moods, my behaviors - was that it inhibited me a lot. It kind of took possibilities out of my world, and made the focus of things very narrow."

-- George Carlin

#Focus Quotes #Personality Quotes #World Quotes

“The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly quickly. Writing for an orchestra is difficult. Writing songs [on your own] is most difficult of all. Though [writing for] the orchestra is close.”
“As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality, and we are consumed with regret for the time when they glowed within us. And in this succession of hopes and regrets our life slips by.”

Source : Natalia Ginzburg (2016). “The Little Virtues”, p.8, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“We hear warmongering every day, every day we hear threats and attempts to scare us... We don't want war and never wanted, but at that time [i.e. during Nagorno-Karabakh war] we had to defend our Motherland. If the time comes again, this time our blow will be final and deadly.”

Source : President Serzh Sargsyan speaks after the military exercises, www.president.am. November 13, 2010.
“It is not permitted that we should know everything.”
“In truth I suspect that merely slowing down is not a very satisfying answer. What I need has less to do with my pace of life than my peace of life. At any speed, I crave a deep and lasting inner peace. And if it's solace I'm after, I don't need to pace myself like a turtle, change jobs or set up house on a quiet island. It is usually frenetic living, not high energy, that robs my peace of mind.”
“I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered”
“I have loved colours, and not flowers;Their motion, not the swallows wings;And wasted more than half my hoursWithout the comradeship of things.”

Source : Arthur Symons (1924). “The collected works of Arthur Symons”
“It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.”

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