"Health food shops can make people feel very important; it's like a brand new religion with people trying to convert you to quinoa."

-- Pippa Evans

#People Quotes #Important Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The impulse to think, to philosophize and spin beauty and brilliance out of mind and soul, is somehow the offspring of resistance of an effort to overcome an apparently insurmountable obstacle. Hence cultural creativeness is more likely to flourish in an atmosphere of restriction, of an imposed pattern of thought and behavior, than in one of total freedom.”
“When eight row together with swing the boat becomes the ninth rower.”
“I always joke that every novel is really about the same thing: one person's struggle against society.”
“My great strength is knowing who I am and where I come from - my island.”
“History is not our guide, it is not our friend. It is a passing stranger, one which shadows legend, sprinkling it with the seeds of truth.”

Source : Michelle Sagara (2016). “Cast in Shadow”, p.236, MIRA
“I love melodies so it's usually where I start.”
“Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the world? Have you ever noticed that?" Nicole asked. "You go on websites and some girl leaves a post and if it's longer than three sentences or she's expressing her thoughts about some topic, she usually ends with, 'Sorry for the rant' or 'That may be dumb, but that's what I think.”
“Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.”

Source : Joseph Butler, Stephen L. Darwall (1983). “Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue”, p.47, Hackett Publishing

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