"You long to jump off, but you just can't work up the nerve, so you tell yourself you're content to look at the view."

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Laura Lee

#Views Quotes #Long Quotes #Nerves Quotes

“Sometimes I sing and dance around the house in my underwear. Doesn't make me Madonna. Never will.”
“For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others.”
“Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.”
“Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.”
“There is a streetlight in front of Soo Yeon's house. From there to home, it takes 280 steps. If we have been walking away from each other for 14 years, how many steps will it take to get back? If she doesn't come even if I wait, that doesn't mean that she abandoned me.. it means she is on her way.”
“I am a Roman citizen.”
“Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.”
“The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.”

Source : "The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul". Book by John Desmond Bernal, 1929.

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