"If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live."

-- Michel de Montaigne

#Death Quotes #Book Quotes #People Quotes

“The fish was an enemy. It had come upon the community and killed two men, a woman, and a child. The people of Amity would demand the death of the fish. They would need to see it dead before they could feel secure enough to resume their normal lives.”

Source : Peter Benchley (2012). “Jaws 2-Book Bundle: Jaws and Shark Trouble”, p.111, Random House
“A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.”
“The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.”
“Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.”
“A person carries off the hat. Hats are about emotion. It is all about how it makes you feel.”

Source : "Philip Treacy: 'I like hats that make the heart beat faster'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. July 09, 2011.
“Freedom from clinging allows us bring love into all aspects of our life.”
“I am Abhorsen..." He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel”
“Get it wrong, and we call it a cult. Get it right, in the right time and the right place, and maybe, for the next few millennia, people won't have to go to work on your birthday.”

Source : "Sapolsky on Religion". Human Behavioral Biology 150/250, Spring 2002.

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