"That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams. The girls of 1929."

-- Anna Godbersen

#Girl Quotes #Dream Quotes #Eye Quotes

“I dont think a powerful man would be interesting unless hed be nice, attractive, with or without the power. Men are interested in powerful men. Women are interested in terrific men!”
“Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in fact, find themselves thus abused and oppressed, they must be stupid not to complain”

Source : Jonathan Mayhew (1750). “A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers: With Some Reflections on the Resistance Made to King Charles I, and on the Anniversary of His Death: in which the Mysterious Doctrine of the Princes' Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled: the Substance of which was Delivered in a Sermon Preached in the West Meeting-house in Boston the Lord's-day After the 30th of January, 1749/50...”, p.39
“I believe, in spite of all, in truth's victory. I believe in the momentous value, hereafter inviolable, of those few truly fraternal men in all the countries of the world, who, in the oscillation of national egoisms let loose, stand up and stand out, steadfast as the glorious statues of Right and Duty.”

Source : Henri Barbusse (1919). “Light”
“As much as I would miss my wife if she were to die, I would miss what we are together even more. Our "we-ness," our "us-ness."”
“Christ is the clue to all that is.”
“I think I'm smart unless I'm really, really in love and then I am ridiculously stupid.”
“The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden.”
“Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.”

Source : Erwin Mitsch, Egon Schiele (1988). “The art of Egon Schiele”

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