"He knew something was going to happen and his entire system was waiting on it. He thought it was going to be one of the supreme moments in life but apart from that, he didn't have the vaguest notion what it might be. He pictured himself, after it was over, as an entirely new man, with an even better personality than he had now. He sat there for about fifteen minutes and nothing happened."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Men Quotes #Personality Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.”
“There is no essential difference between classical and popular music. Music is music. I want to communicate with the listener who finds Indian classical music remote.”
“I put on lip balm first thing in the morning and always use it before I swipe on my red lipstick.”
“The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, for example, becomes brutal sadism which then is an essential mass-psychological factor in imperialistic wars.”
“Good men and good women have fire in the belly. We are fierce. Don't mess with us if you're looking for someone who will always be 'nice' to you. Nice gets you a C+ in life. We don't always smile, talk in a soft voice, or engage in indiscriminate hugs. In the loving struggle between the sexes we thrust and parry.”
“Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.”
“A day will come when beings, now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon Earth as a footstool and laugh, and reach out their hands amidst the stars.”
“Your skin and hair feel good, you sleep better and you start feeling so much better about yourself when you start eating properly.”

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