"Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire for knowledge. And the answers he received to the questions, "Where do I come from?", "What is man?", although they made him poorer by a few illusions, gave him in compensation a knowledge of his past that is vaster than he could ever have dreamed. For it emerged that the history of life was his history too..."

-- Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

#Past Quotes #Men Quotes #Desire Quotes

“What is greatness? Greatness is when you have found out that you are not great, but everything else is.”
“Fear is just not a part of my life - so much so that if it's involved in somebody else's life and they're close to me, I won't be around them.”
“Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.”
“Harry Potter has actually been a very intimate phenomenon, the story of small groups of people acting in ways they shouldn't, doing things they usually wouldn't, and making the kind of history that, without Harry, they pretty much couldn't.”

Source : Melissa Anelli (2008). “Harry, A History - Now Updated with J.K. Rowling Interview, New Chapter & Photos: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon”, p.19, Simon and Schuster
“And finally, I just felt it was crucial for some of us in the hip hop community to speak up on the issues of teen suicide, bullying, and the overall anti-homosexual sentiment that exist within hip hop culture. I felt so strongly about these issues and this song that I had to do a video that would command some attention, even if it makes some viewers uncomfortable. Even if it came at the cost of my own comfort.”

Source : "Murs’ ‘Animal Style’ Video: Rapper Supports Gay Rights, Kisses A Man In New Clip" by Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2012.
“In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we're actually playing in THE Kremlin!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Life has its ups and downs, so to expect otherwise is setting yourself up for disappointment.”

Source : "Tim Matheson: On the Whole Live Challenge and never wallowing in disappointment". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.”

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