"[On Malaysia:] Mr. Darwin says so truly that a visit to the tropics (and such tropics) is like a visit to a new planet. This new wonder-world, so enchanting, tantalising, intoxicating, makes me despair, for I cannot make you see what I am seeing!"

-- Isabella Bird

#Travel Quotes #Despair Quotes #World Quotes

“I can't help comparing what I have with Gale to what I'm pretending to have with Peeta. How I never question Gale's motives while I do nothing but doubt the latter's. It's not a fair comparison really. Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you sidestep that?”
“Whether you like it or not, learn to love it, because its the best thing going. Wooooo!”
“The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.”
“There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.”
“I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men; - I believe that he who once has bathed in the sublime delights of this high Art, is consecrate to Her for ever, and never can deny Her; - I believe that through Art all men are saved.”

Source : "Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays".
“Twilight, Iâ€™m sorry, is about a very unhealthy, toxic relationship. She falls in love with this guy and the second he leaves her, her life is over and sheâ€™s going to kill herself! What message are we sending to young people? That is not going to help this world evolve,”
“We would like UN resolutions to be enforced, including on Iraq.”
“I was told many times that my writing was either too Korean - or not Korean enough.”

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