"Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine."

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Source : Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.83, Vintage

Isak Dinesen

#Wine Quotes #People Quotes #Drunk Quotes

“Stillness is your essential nature.”
“Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.”

Source : Washington Post 18 July 1973, p. A 25
“I've lived the way I wanted to. I've walked the road the way I imagined it.”
“When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can only take it away.”
“It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.”
“I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter how much money you have, if you want to stay involved with your children and don't want to lose being a primary parent to them, you're still in the game.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons.”

Source : Rick Steves (2015). “Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door 2016: The Travel Skills Handbook”, p.973, Avalon Travel
“People are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons. Some people have something in their disposition. Maybe they were born too mean, or maybe they were born too tender. But most people are brought to where they are by circumstance, by calamity or a broken heart or something else happening in their lives that wasn't anything they planned on. People are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons. The one thing that I do know is, it doesn't matter what any one of them tell you -- nobody wants to be alone.”

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