"Since when has love ever looked for reasons, or evidence? Why would love bow to the reality of things, when it creates a reality of its own, so much more vivid, wherein everything resonates to the key of the heart?"

-- Paul Murray

#Heart Quotes #Reality Quotes #Keys Quotes

“To say Iâ€™m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.”
“If I need to bulk up for a role, I will do more weights. If I need to slim down for something, I will do more cardio. That's usually how it goes.”
“Probably the most pervasive false belief most of us harbor is the fallacy that only some superhuman act would have the power to turn our problems around. Nothing could be further from the truth. Life is cumulative. Whatever results we're experiencing in our lives are the accumulation of a host of small decisions we've made as individuals, as a family, as a community, as a society, and as a species.”
“It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate.”
“But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?”

Source : Ellen Douglas (2012). “A Lifetime Burning”, p.20, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself; don't listen to the shriek of your relations...don't be afraid of public opinion in the shape of the neighbours in the next house, when all the world is before you new and shining, and everything is possible, if you will only be energetic and independent and seize opportunity by the scruff of the neck.”
“Volatility is a symptom that people have no idea of the underlying value”

Source : "Henry Blodget Debates Jeremy Grantham". Interview with James M. Clash, www.forbes.com. June 12, 2000.
“Hope and change are hard-fought things.”

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