"I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road."

-- Benjamin F. Wade

#Men Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Funny Travel Quotes

“If pain is truly love, for my family I die.”
“You silly humans make me laugh when you say you're 'not looking for a relationship right now' -as if you had a choice in when and who you fall in love with. ~ Cupid”
“It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals.”
“I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.”
“Xena and Gabrielle were a couple...in the end, it was if not explicitly said, it was implicit that...yeah, they totally were.”
“France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden...something of which I am not proud.”
“...I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, their smell of beer or fifteen-year-old whiskey. Men who didn't come to the emergency room with you, men who left on Christmas Eve. Men who slammed the security gates, who made you love them and then changed their minds.”
“Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.”

Source : Dan Simmons (2009). “Ilium”, p.36, Harper Collins

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