"Because you do not believe?" "Oh, no," said Attolia bitterly. "Because I believe and do not choose to worship."

-- Megan Whalen Turner

#Believe Quotes #Worship Quotes #Said Quotes

“My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.”
“You can only confiscate the wealth that exists at a given moment. You cannot confiscate future wealth - and that future wealth is less likely to be produced when people see that it is going to be confiscated.”
“I thought I would be more inspired to have all these new feelings to talk about, but I really just want to hang out with my daughter.”
“If you ever get to a wall, you just got to break that wall down and keep going, and I feel like I have come up with some conceptual songs that will really connect with people and that is something that I have been showing and improving my lyrical ability so much that I came to this realization that I also want to make music that people can connect with.”
“Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.”
“There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.”
“We all got up to dance. Oh, but we never got the chance!”
“The public, as a whole, does not demand or appreciate the pure expression of beauty. Its cultured members expect to find in poetry, if anything, repose from material and nervous anxiety; an apt or chiselled phrase strokes the appetites and tickles the imagination. The more general public merely enjoys its platitudes and truisms jerked on to the understanding in line and rhyme; truth put into metre sounds overwhelmingly true.”

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