"You build your mind, so make it into something you want to live with."

-- Marilynne Robinson

#Mind Quotes #Want Quotes

“the photograph, now they are detached from their original surroundings, they are involved in a close world in which they only relate to each other: all the rest of 'reality' has vanished. This allows us to see those elements from a new point of view and perhaps to reach a better understanding...”
“I'm not a health freak. I just work out every day.”
“The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?”
“If a cat had a halo, it would probably wear it around it's tail. It makes a statement.”
“When a couple of young people strongly devoted to each other commence to eat onions, it is safe to pronounce them engaged.”

Source : James Montgomery Bailey (1873). “Life in Danbury: Being a Brief But Comprehensive Record of the Doings of a Remarkable People, Under More Remarkable Circumstances, and Chronicled in a Most Remarkable Manner”, p.230
“If we each get on a treadmill right now, one of two things is going to happen... either you're going to get off first or I am going to die. Period.”
“Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it ought to be made; but if compensation be impracticable, that impracticability ought to be an obstacle to a clearly essential reform.”
“Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style.”

Source : "The Ring of Solomon". Book by Jonathan Stroud, October 14, 2010.

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