"Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway, The passion and infirmity of age."

-- James Anthony Froude

#Passion Quotes #Age Quotes #Riches Quotes

“It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.”
“I turned against the left wing because they don't like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.”

Source : "James Watson: What I've Learned" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. October 19, 2007.
“Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at worst, repulsed. There is a desperate need for creative Christians to redeem the visual arena from both forms of excess, cutting through all the false glamour, tawdry baseness and dense obfuscation.”
“Misfortune was my god.”
“The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.”
“People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.”

Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler”, p.83, Petrarca Press
“The secret in riding is to do few things right. The more one does, the less one succeeds. The less one does, the more one succeeds.”
“Psychics put people in spiritual harm, the same way pimps put people in physical harm.”

Source : "Christine O’Donnell Thinks Psychics Are Evil Pimps" by Steve Krakauer, www.mediaite.com. September 15, 2010.

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