"Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic...."

-- Dean Koontz

#Quality Quotes #Civility Quotes #Charm Quotes

“Love is not always about â€˜everythingâ€™s fineâ€™â€¦love is about truth. Truth and love are one in the same. It doesnâ€™t always come in a sweet little box with a bow on it.”
“Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah. "Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It's the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I'm the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays." Hezekiah laughed, but there was affection in it. "I would love nothing better than to visit there. But I'm afraid I'd be tempted to loot the place, and carry it all away with me.”
“The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play....We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play...it arises in and as play, and never leaves it.”
“Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.”

Source : "Greed and amnesia: the devils in financial history". www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.
“If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.”
“They say time flies, but you keep breaking itâ€™s wings.”
“but sometimes one person can hold you up in life, keep you standing, and without that hand to hold, you can find yourself free-falling no matter how strong you used to be, no matter how hard you try to remain steady.”
“I donâ€™t keep a travel diary. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down. Everything else slipped away, as though my mind felt jilted by my reliance on pen and paper. For exactly the same reason I donâ€™t travel with a camera. My holiday becomes the snapshots and anything I forget to record is lost.”

Source : Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.149, Penguin

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