"There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest."

-- Tahir Shah

#Fear Quotes #Men Quotes #Bullets Quotes

“An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.”
“While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.”
“The Cards had one pitcher who won fourteen straight games in a period of twenty-four days. Then when he lost his fifteenth game 1-0, his manager fined him fifty bucks.”
“Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.”
“Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.”
“Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What is the proper thing to marry for, I should like to know?”
“When someone shows you their heart, their past, their wounds, they have entrusted you with the deepest part of themselves. It is the part of themselves that makes them uniquely beautiful. To be trusted in this way is a great honor. Guard that trust with your life.”

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