"but curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another."

-- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

#Girl Quotes #Passion Quotes #Curiosity Quotes

“One thing I've always thought about Morgana is that she's sort of a modern mind in a period body. She's not your usual warm princess, which is what drew me to her in the first place.”
“Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.”

Source : "U-Turn: What If You Woke Up One Morning and Realized You Were Living the". Book by Bruce Grierson, p.53, April 3, 2007.
“... trying to control construction costs is like trying to control the cost of a hospital stay. You may not realize that when you sneeze and the nurse hands you a box of tissues, it generates a $5 charge on your bill. But you still have to pay.”
“She still remembered sitting for hours as a little girl and pretending to be a hassock. A foot stool. Because if she could just stay very small, and very quiet, her mother would forget she was there, and then she wouldn't scream about people and places and things that had gone wrong.”
“I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.”
“Coffee is for CLOSERS!”

Source : "Fictional character: Blake". "Glengarry Glen Ross", 1992.
“Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not know the use of it.”
“Surrounding yourself with others...”

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