"Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we have betrayed, we needn't worry so much about the good and the bad in us. But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination ... then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse."

-- Graham Greene

#Revenge Quotes #Worry Quotes #Charity Quotes

“I defended myself at the first opportunity I had, which was a meeting of writers in which I proved that Honecker had based his whole attack.”
“The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.”

Source : Sun Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, p.4, Booklassic
“I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I read somewhere that tongue-kissing was coined as an insult to the French reputation of sexual promiscuity. Apparently, American soldiers returned home from World War I and showed their wives and girlfriends what they learned abroad.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“What's grief but the after-blindness/of the spirit's dazzle of love?”

Source : Gwen Harwood (2011). “Gwen Harwood: Selected Poems”, p.80, ReadHowYouWant.com
“A laxity pervades the popular use of words.”
“I love it, but it's not important to me to always be thought of as sexy. I like it when it doesn't limit my career. It's a part of my life, but on a secondary plane”
“There are certain scripts that are just written in a way where, for whatever reason, I read it, and instantly that inspiration hit me and it was just kind of electric, and I didn't have to think about it. It just kind of went from there.”

Source : Source: www.fanbolt.com

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