"Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth."

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Robert Louis Stevenson

#Mouths Quotes #Intention Quotes #Deny Quotes

“He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.”
“Now, like, I'm President. It would be pretty hard for some drug guy to come into the White House and start offering it up, you know?...I bet if they did, I hope I would say, 'Hey, get lost. We don't want any of that.'”
“I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I'd rather live my private life than read about it.”

Source : "Brittany Murphy: 'Don't listen to' gossip" by Meriah Doty, www.cnn.com. August 15, 2003.
“It comes to me every day of my life that a home spirit is being awakened amongst us, that as a nation we are beginning to realize how important it is to have homes of our own, homes that we like, that we have been instrumental in building, that we will want to have belong to our children.”

Source : Gustav Stickley (1912). “More Craftsman Homes”
“I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.”
“Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.”
“A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.”
“The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.”

Source : Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.130, New Victoria Publishers

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