"He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health."

-- Martial

#Life Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner”

Source : Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1869). “Carols of Cockayne”, p.186
“This kind of passionate faith can be painful. Not caring is easy. Caring hurts. Caring costs you something. But without this sort of faith, you will never create to your fullest potential. Faith is a gift. Like I've said, felt belief is not necessarily something that you choose to have or not to have. But it is a gift that you can open yourself to receive.”
“The last time when I handed over information was in February or March 1949.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“The times when we need prayers or counsel, we are little like to be in a mood to learn, nor yet to understand.”

Source : Sigrid Undset (2011). “The Bridal Wreath: Kristin Lavransdatter”, p.45, Vintage
“Venus herself, if she were bold, would not be Venus.”
“I think the best and perhaps only sensible policy for the future is to prepare society for change and be prepared to adjust. In 25 years, we'll have a world with some 9 to 10 billion people that will require twice as much primary energy as today. We must embrace new science and technology in a more positive way than we presently do in Europe. This includes, for example, nuclear energy and genetic food production to provide the world what it urgently needs.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I think that Bill and Hillary Clinton have a very special relationship and I think in very many ways to them it's a very satisfying relationship. I think that it's a mutual respect with a goal of power to achieve, maintain power. And I think that they have been good partners in that.”
“I do not think the American peoples are idiots. They are a very playful and sensitive people! I know them!”

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