"He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread."

-- Nicolas Chamfort

#Friendship Quotes #Protection Quotes #Guilty Quotes

“The later rain,--it falls in anxious haste Upon the sun-dried fields and branches bare, Loosening with searching drops the rigid waste, As if it would each root's lost strength repair.”

Source : Jones Very (1993). “Jones Very: The Complete Poems”, p.72, University of Georgia Press
“The celebrity culture demands a camera-ready-at-all-times look or else the photo is circulated in a demeaning headline.”
“A society struggles to fulfill its best instincts, even as an individual does, and generally makes just as hard going of it. The fight against prejudice is an inevitable process. Man has been warring against his own lower nature ever since he found out he had one, and the battle against intolerance is part of the same old struggle between good and evil that has preoccupied us ever since we gave up swinging from trees.”
“Technology is an incredible tool - it connects people to each other, creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.”
“I'm really into a blush on the eyelid and on the high of the cheek. The singer of 'Cocteau Twins' used to do that - really pink eyelids. It added a little romance to the hard kind of street-edge clothes.”
“It's just that no one wants to be the one being rescued, we all want to do the rescuing.”

Source : Steven Brust (2010). “Iorich”, p.309, Macmillan
“Only you can decide what is most important in your life.”
“For instance, when I go to the premiere on Tuesday I probably won't watch the film at all - I'll be watching the audience just to see their reaction to different moments, what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong, stuff like that.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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