"Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart."

-- William Butler Yeats

#Lying Quotes #Heart Quotes #Gone Quotes

“Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father.”
“As a society how do we do better and stop things like this happening time after time!! Iâ€™m so sorry to these families. Violence is not the answer people. Retaliation isnâ€™t the solution as well.”
“All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.”
“Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life”
“No man - prince, peasant, pope - has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness. It is that liberty they fear. They want us to be driven to God like sheep, not running to him like lovers, shouting joy!”

Source : "The Heretic" by Morris West, 1968.
“The cruelest prison of all is the prison of the mind.”
“That's what Jamie didn't understand: it was never just sex. Even the fastest, dirtiest, most impersonal screw was about more than sex. It was about connection. It was about looking at another human being and seeing your own loneliness and neediness reflected back. It was recognising that together you had the power to temporarily banish that sense of isolation. It was about experiencing what it was to be human at the basest, most instinctive level. How could that be described as just anything?”

Source : Emily Maguire (2009). “Taming the Beast”, p.85, Picador Australia
“I'm quite dyslexic in school.”

Source : "Georgia May Jagger: The Interview" by Christine Lennon, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 15, 2010.

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