"Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait."

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Bill Vaughan

#Beauty Quotes #Grace Quotes #Bait Quotes

“Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.”
“I have three messages," said the breathless Nyad."One is we should never ever give up. Two is you are never too old to chase your dreams. And three is it looks like a solitary sport but it takes a team.”
“Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.”
“In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning, can pull everyone from bed in a fog. Food is better in November than any other time of the year.”

Source : Cynthia Rylant (2015). “In November”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“At first I read mostly books by Southern authors - black and white - because almost all the people I knew were born and raised in the South, starting with my mother. I remember I got a lot of Erskine Caldwell.”
“Nuclear DNA encodes all the proteins and enzymes that make you you, basically.”
“We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.”

Source : "Tamarisk Tree Volume 3: Challenge to the Cold War". Book by Dora Russell , ch. 14, 1985.
“If you had asked me moment, as a lawyer, I would have said I would rather have had a male Democrat on the court. Like most lawyers , I love to win. But I was glad to see O'Connor because she made me normal. Just the fact that she was there with a soprano voice and a ruffley collar made my physical presence less weird and less fraught.”

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