"The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. â€¦ they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality."

-- Thomas Mann

#Book Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Personality Quotes

“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
“Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it, would you not?”
“I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.”

Source : Edgar Quinet (1845). “Ultramontanism: Or, The Roman Church and Modern Society”, p.72
“I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room”

Source : Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group
“I really miss my family and my kids when I'm away from home.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“We on our part will stick to our independent foreign policy of peace, acting forever as a strong defender of world peace and a persistent proponent of common development.”
“We feel and know that we are eternal.”
“It's a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn't; it's something that goes on inside us.”

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