"You do understand," she continued, "that unless I had an object to love -- or, more accurately, a someone to love -- if I did not have such a relationship within myself, then I would not be capable of love at all? You would have a god who could not love. Or maybe worse, you would have a god who, when he chose, could love only as a limitation of his nature."

-- William P. Young

#Capable Quotes #Limitation Quotes

“Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.”

Source : Ellen Key (1909). “The Century of the Child”
“I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.”
“This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make a great mistake not staring at people from a sidewalk table.”

Source : Patricia Highsmith (2008). “The Talented Mr. Ripley”, p.65, W. W. Norton & Company
“One of the criteria by which we measure the worth of public figures is whether or not their brand of bull is in step with the current Zeitgeist.”
“I don't know a critic who penetrates the center of anything.”
“Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
“Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.”
“The music business has changed incredibly. There used to be 50 record companies. Now there's only three, and it's just getting smaller and smaller. But then again, you have the Internet, so anybody who has music can get it out there.”

Source : Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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