"People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused."

“The more people come out, the less it will be an issue.”

“Don't worry about a sugar planter. Give him a horse and he'll ride to his own funeral.”

Source : "Fictional character: Mrs. Rand". "I Walked with a Zombie", www.imdb.com. 1943.

“Burn, O evening hearth, and waken Pleasant visions, as of old! Though the house by winds be shaken, Safe I keep this room of gold!”

“All you have to do is take a man at face value. Don't go into it thinking you can change them. Men aren't fixer-uppers, not like a house or a car. You buy them as is.”

Source : Jill Shalvis, Elle Kennedy (2015). “Time Out & Body Check”, p.9, Harlequin

“ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way.”

“I envy people who could just have one drink and not go look for cocaine afterwards.”

“We don't need this religious cosmopolitanism. It's no good.”

Source : "Vladimir Zhirinovsky on Religion in Russia". www.forerunner.com. May 1, 1996.

“In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 1, 2018