"I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue."

-- Charles Lamb

#Men Quotes #Smoking Quotes #Toil Quotes

“Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.”
“For the record, Claire Marsden and I are not having sex.”

Source : Sarah Mayberry, Shoma Narayanan (2015). “After-Hours Negotiation: Can't Get Enough\An Offer She Can't Refuse”, p.94, Harlequin
“For most women, running for office starts with a passion for an issue you care about. For me, it's always been about human rights, domestic-violence prevention, juvenile-justice reform, sexual-assault prevention.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.”
“The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.”
“At night, in the garden, it occurs to you that it might have been your heart that left you as you reached the capital. Your heart might not have travelled well, closed up in its cavity, quivering and gnawing at the bars of your ribcage during the commute. It might be tracking north now, along edgelands, past spoil-heaps and stands of pylons, under motorway passes, back to the higher ground. Back to him.”
“Forget about Republican or Democrat - what about the kid in the middle of the country who wants to play the drums, the kid who wants to learn how to write a book, or the kid who wants to write a screenplay? We need to give them access to the arts. It's not fair that if you live in a different part of the country, you don't have the chance to learn. And it's not fair that if you don't have as much money, you don't have the chance to learn.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.”

Source : Garrison Keillor (1990). “Leaving Home”, p.17, Penguin

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