"Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions. They have thrown around our sensual life the grandeur of a better, and drawn us up from contacts with the temporal and the selfish to communion with beauty and truth and goodness."

-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Selfish Quotes #Honor Quotes #Sensual Quotes

“If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out.”

Source : Number 200 statement from the 282 provisions to the fees due to Medical Practitioners in the Code of Hammurabi
“I moved to New York and was told, "Go back home. We don't need you. Go pump gas. You're from Vermont. We've got no use for you. You're not drawing guys in tights." So, I learned how to draw guys in tights, and I put them in as many crime situations as I could.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh.”
“It may well be a sign of the decadence of the Church and the failure of Christianity that gifts have to be coaxed out of people, and that often they will not give at all unless they get something for their money in the way of entertainment or of goods. Giving which is real giving has a certain recklessness in it.”
“I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.”
“Catastrophe was only narrowly averted. It was all due to the faith of one man! Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune!”

Source : "Fate — I believe!". Speech on November 03, 1936. "Wir alle helfen dem Führer". Book by Robert Ley, pp. 103-114, research.calvin.edu. 1937.
“It's a completely independent atelier and company. We develop the prototypes here. There's a pattern maker, a sample maker, a commercial team, a head of sales, an in-house production team. That's the price of independence. And in the studio I work closely with Sarah-Linh on the collection, and Nao takes care of development.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.”

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