"Passion such as hers is all consent, asking little in return. I had merely to enter a room where she was to see her face take on that peaceful expression of one who is resting in bed. If I touched her, I had the impression that all the blood in her veins was turning to honey."

-- Marguerite Yourcenar

#Passion Quotes #Blood Quotes #Expression Quotes

“See, I'm looking for a man that'll rub me slow, make me sing real high when he goes down low.”
“A heap of bricks is not yet a house.”
“Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to play this game? Because if it is, here's a list of things in the past that the physicists at the time didn't understand [and now we do understand] [...]. If that's how you want to invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on - so just be ready for that to happen, if that's how you want to come at the problem”
“Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty”
“There is absolutely zero chance that ObamaCare will be repealed while Democrats control the Senate and President Obama is in the White House.”
“...for the first time in my life, a voice went off in my head:'You have no power over what happens in your life. Drugs dictate exactly what you're going to do. You've taken your hands off the steering wheel, and you're going wherever the drug world takes you.' That had never changed. The feeling would well up inside of me, and no matter how much I loved my girl or my band or my friends or my family, when that siren song 'Go get high now' started playing in my head, I was off.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To some people the impossible is impossible.”

Source : Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.”

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