"I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself."

-- Leo Tolstoy

#Evil Quotes #Want Quotes #Causes Quotes

“In a building with apartments, of course, you want to make connections. Life is easier that way. There's salt if you don't have salt; you can knock at someone's door, like in any city. But you know, you can hear the others, and you want to sleep, you get annoyed.”
“I think that my emergence as a leader is closely related to the development of Taiwan's democracy. Taiwan's democracy was a gradual development. It was done from the bottom up. Therefore a lot of the more successful political leaders come from civil society, those that are closer to the grass-roots level of the public.”
“Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.”
“I took a private lesson, but it didn't really work out, so I went back to playing along with records. That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.”
“War is honorable In those who do their native rights maintain; In those whose swords an iron barrier are Between the lawless spoiler and the weak; But is, in those who draw th' offensive blade For added power or gain, sordid and despicable As meanest office of the worldly churl.”
“....decay and disfavor came together as other parts of the coast were developed, and the canals became weed-clogged ditches breeding mosquitoes, and the hotels were turned into third-rate apartments.”

Source : Edward Bunker (2012). “Little Boy Blue”, p.121, Oldcastle Books
“Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.”
“When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat.”

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