"Indeed, Xcor stayed away for the wrong reason, the bad reason, an unacceptable reasonâ€”in spite of all his training, he found himself choosing Throeâ€™s life over ambition: His anger had taken him in one direction, but his regret had led him in another. And the latter one was what won out."

-- J.R. Ward

#Regret Quotes #Taken Quotes #Ambition Quotes

“In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds - that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous.”

Source : "American Communications Association v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382, 438". Judicial opinion, 1950.
“So I go to the studio, and just say, 'Hi Paul, it's me, Rusty.' I think I kept it together pretty well, although I was pretty nervous. And before the day is over I'm playing guitar, and there's Paul McCartney over there, playing his Hofner bass and singing. All I can do is think, 'This life is so so bizarre.'”
“Love, first begotten of all created things ...”
“It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares?”
“How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can't say and what we can show and what we can't show - it's enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.”
“Libraries are my passion in life. Before I became mayor (of Los Angeles), I used to sneak out here during lunchtime...and I'd go to a corner and take a book-any book almost-and read it for a while, and then feel rejuvenated.”
“The moment comes when the great nurse, death, takes a human, the child, by the hand and quietly says, "It is time to go home. Night is coming. It is your bedtime, child of earth. Come; you're tired. Lie down at last in the quiet nursery of nature and sleep. Sleep well. The day is gone. Stars shine in the canopy of eternity."”
“The good Lord never gives you more than you can handle. Unless you die of something.”

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