"Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire."

-- Quintilian

#Desire Quotes #Pleasure Quotes #Forbidden Quotes

“I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.”
“The Baathist state did two things extremely well. One was create information-gathering intelligence networks and a filing system. There's actually a lot of information on a lot of people and that is a major achievement of a police state. The second one is the promotion of literature and poetry, and the arts generally. So this is a state that's producing mass police archives - surveillance - and poetry. And in fact a lot of the archives are about what poets are writing or what they should be writing.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.”
“Disputants often fare poorly when they each act greedily and deceptively.”

Source : "The Art and Science of Negotiation". Book by Howard Raiffa, 1982.
“You become what you believe - not what you wish or want but what you truly believe. Wherever you are in life, look at your beliefs. They put you there.”
“I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.”
“Mostly actors are progressive because we are accustomed to all the nuances of human life, whereas dictators just try to flatten it all out. So we usually try to stand up to dictators like, well, we won't mention names.”
“I did nothing to deserve God's love; in fact, I was living as an orphan, without hope. Yet God chose to pursue a relationship with me, and through the death of his son Jesus, I was adopted into God's family.”

Source : "Commentary: Our tragedy and God's love for orphans" by Steven Curtis Chapman, www.cnn.com.

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