"I know as well as any one, [the devil] is an adversary, whom if we resist, he will fly from us--but I seldom resist him at all; from a terror, that though I may conquer, I may still get a hurt in the combat--soinstead of thinking to make him fly, I generally fly myself."

-- Laurence Sterne

#Hurt Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Temptation Quotes

“Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven.”
“I sit alone at present, dreaming darkly of a Dun.”

Source : Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly Leaves”, p.12
“What if you were really meant to be with someone? But you kept messing about and having the Horn and so on and you lost them.”
“Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish - only bless.”

Source : Artur Schnabel (1942). “Music and the line of most resistance”, Da Capo Pr
“I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.”
“I don't think plot as a plot means much today. I'd say that everybody has seen every plot twenty times. What they haven't seen is characters and their relation to one another. I don't worry much about plot anymore.”

Source : Howard Hawks, Scott Breivold (2006). “Howard Hawks: Interviews”, p.41, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.”
“I love spin classes. I'm also very big on music, so I make a mix on my iPod that's 45 minutes to an hour long of music that pumps me up so I know how much time I've been at the gym without looking at the clock. Put your favorite songs towards the end of the mix, so this way you keep going until you hear your favorite song.”

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