"Even when conservatives have all the marbles, they still act as if they're under siege. Now that they are under siege, it is no time for them to act as if they're losing their marbles."

-- Maureen Dowd

#Political Quotes #Siege Quotes #Losing Quotes

“If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that COâ‚‚ will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm [parts per million] to at most 350 ppm... If the present overshoot of this target COâ‚‚ is not brief, there is a possibility of seeding irreversible catastrophic effects.”
“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
“If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.”
“He [Jesus] did not say, 'You will never have a rough passage, you will never be over-strained, you will never feel uncomfortable,' but he did say, 'You will never be overcome.”
“A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him. [Fr., Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.]”

Source : "The Art of Poetry (Canto I)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.
“But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.”
“Perhaps we might, within the anatomy of our imaginations, think once more of the naked body as a vessel of grace, taste and wonder. In the spotted history of art, stranger things have happened.”
“Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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