"Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence; forget it, forgive it, but keep him inexorably at a distance who offered it."

-- Johann Kaspar Lavater

#Forgiveness Quotes #Distance Quotes #Forgiving Quotes

“You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.”
“I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us, as when they are wrought into the heart, through the ground-work of a story which engages the passions: Is it that we are like iron, and must first be heated before we can be wrought upon?”
“Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose.”
“And when April like an over-lustful lover leaped upon the lush flanks of the Downs there would be yet another child in the wretched hut down on Nettle Flitch Field, where Meriam housed the fruits of her shame.”

Source : Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“I'm a huge, huge sports fan. A massive sports fan.”
“I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.”
“In fact, if you take any group of scores, it's likely that fifty to sixty percent are going to be so much alike that it's difficult to tell any difference among them. But I sometimes wonder if that has more to do with the quality of the art that's being made. There are always those composers who are going to move toward whatever is currently in fashion, there are others who will deliberately attempt to go in another direction. And sometimes, there are composers who will see themselves as being outside the stream and not even try to present their music to the general public.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Just because you can't see them and you can't hear them, that doesn't mean they're not here.”

Source : Graham Masterton (2004). “The Devil in Gray”

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