"The issue isn't, Am I good enough? No. The issue is, Do I not have any other choice? Will and desire don't matter. Ability doesn't matter. Need is the only thing that matters."

-- Dana Spiotta

#Issues Quotes #Choices Quotes #Desire Quotes

“The liberated woman is not that modern doll who wears make-up and tasteless clothes. ....The liberation woman is a person who believes that she is as human as a man. The liberated woman does not insist on her freedom so as to abuse it.”
“As the eye naturally seeks the light and vision, and our body naturally desires food and drink, so our mind is possessed with a becoming and natural desire to become acquainted with the truth of God and the causes of things.”

Source : Origen (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)”, p.158, Jazzybee Verlag
“I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.”
“The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work.”
“In the 1960s, Robert Venturi and I played a game we called â€˜I can like something worse than you can like.â€™”
“Don't think of sea as color. Make it a solid that can support a boat. Think of 'wetness' as color-texture.”
“The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything.”
“The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.”

Source : Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: Amish: The World's Squarest Teenagers" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2010.

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