"I dinna know what's a sadist. And if I forgive you for this afternoon, I reckon you'll forgive me, too, as soon as ye can sit down again." "As for my pleasure..." His lip twitched. "I said I would have to punish you. I did not say I wasna going to enjoy it." He crooked a finger at me. "Come here."

-- Diana Gabaldon

#Forgive Me Quotes #Forgiving Quotes #Afternoon Quotes

“I think the most fun I ever had was playing King Arthur in Spamalot on the West End.”

Source : "Alan Dale: The Nicest Bad Guy in The Biz". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 6, 2013.
“There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.”

Source : William Gilbert, Galileo Galilei, William Harvey (1984). “The Selected writings of William Gilbert, Galileo Galilei, William Harvey ; illustrated by Marc Yankus”
“Let me guess,â€ Eli said, his voice that low, even timbre, as always. â€œDrinking from kegs also falls under outdoor activity.â€ I just looked at him, standing there in jeans and the same blue hoodie heâ€™d had on the first time I met him. Maybe it was the embarrassment, which had been bad enough before I had an audience, but I was instantly annoyed. I said, â€œAre we outside?â€ He glanced round, as if needing to confirm this. â€œNope.â€ â€œThen no.â€ I turned my attention back to the keg.”
“The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]”
“The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.”
“Public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry,”

Source : "The price of shame". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2015.
“Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application.”

Source : Edwin Louis Cole (1993). “Real Man”, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take 'no' with any sort of grace, a taste for gossip, rudeness, a fair disdain for what people will think of you and an occasional and calculated disregard for rules - are also qualities that go into making a very antisocial human being.”

Source : Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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