"... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality."

-- Mary McCarthy

#Average Quotes #Catholic Quotes #Religion Quotes

“Companies prefer to put money in the pockets of shareholders or to hoard cash rather than to raise wages or invest.”
“It's like kill or be killed, that's my thing basically.”
“A man should be upright, not be kept upright.”
“Not one amongst the doctors, as you'll see For his own friends desires to prescribe.”
“Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.”
“All sin is equally wrong, but not all sin is equally bad.”
“And when the universe has finished exploding all the stars will slow down, like a ball that has been thrown into the air, and they will come to a halt and they will all begin to fall towards the centre of the universe again. And then there will be nothing to stop us seeing all the stars in the world because they will all be moving towards us, gradually faster and faster, and we will know that the world is going to end soon because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mark Haddon from Jul 26, 2012
“But it's also true that my memory is a card shark, reshuffling the deck to hide what I fear to know, unable to keep from fingering the ace at the bottom of the deck even when I'm doing nothing more than playing Fish in the daylight with children.”

Source : Lorene Cary (2010). “Black Ice”, p.127, Vintage

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