"Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than general or remote considerations of policy, utility and justice?"

-- Alexander Hamilton

#Passion Quotes #Justice Quotes #Human Nature Quotes

“Maybe I had more wrinkles than I would if I hadn't spent so much of my life outdoors, but I didn't care. It was a privilege to grow old, and not everyone got to enjoy it. I was grateful for every minute I was given.”

Source : Diane Chamberlain (2009). “The Bay at Midnight”, p.96, Harlequin
“The Federal Reserve... is in the position of the chaperone who has ordered the punch bowl removed just when the party was really warming up.”
“I studied philosophy in school, became disgruntled by the fact that it was a way to have a very interesting conversation with very few people about very few things in very narrow terms and yet still believed (and still believe today) that there was something that I was getting myself involved in when I said I wanted to study philosophy.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.”
“Your children will go to public school and they will be trained for somewhere around 15,000 hours in ungodly secular thought. And then they'll go to Sunday school and they'll color a picture of Noah's ark. And you think that's going to stand against the lies that they are being told?”
“The cross is not a detour or a hurdle on the way to the kingdom, nor is it even the way to the kingdom; it is the kingdom come.”
“I'm not a witch, I just like Halloween, and I thought that blondes look skinnier in black.”
“I love adventure, so I'm excited to be working on something new and making the transition from reality show contestant to host.”

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