"She even learnt the language of a strange country which Senior Cosetti had been told some people believed still existed, although no-one in the world could say where it was. The name of this country was Wales."

-- Susanna Clarke

#Senior Quotes #Country Quotes #Names Quotes

“But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take.”

Source : John Clellon Holmes (2015). “Go: A Novel”, p.254, Open Road Media
“Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.”
“If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it - no matter what.”
“Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.”

Source : Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.255, Ballantine Books
“Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.”
“The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility.”

Source : William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“I didn't want to be president; I didn't want to be governor; I didn't want to be a congress person. I just wanted to be mayor of the city of Detroit. I lived there my entire life.”

Source : Source: www.finalcall.com
“Within me is the potential to commit every evil act I see being committed by other men, and unless I feel this potential, I can at any moment be controlled by these same urges. I am free from these urges only if I recognize when I am feeling them, and while feeling them and acknowledging them to be me, choose not to follow them. Only in this way can I begin to regain the disowned parts of me. And only in this way can I know what it is I am criticizing in others.”

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