"Look no farther than your hand, Make a choice and take a stand."

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Source : Shannon Hale (2007). “Princess Academy”, p.178, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Shannon Hale

#Hands Quotes #Choices Quotes #Looks Quotes

“My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not with complex substances which elude ordinary chemical methods, but with the simple substances undergoing comprehensible reactions... I intend also to emphasise the fact that it is not alone with the separation and identification of products from the animal that our present studies deal; but with their reactions in the body; with the dynamic side of biochemical phenomena.”
“The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.64, Delphi Classics
“When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.”
“We have two nations, and it's not black or white. It's red and blue. Under Republican leadership, cities tend to do better. Cities are destroyed under Democrats, because they don't know how to deal with the constituency; they're terrified.”
“Maybe I'm just lucky I'm not working with any assholes... yet.”
“For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.”

Source : "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ'". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com. April 14, 1999.
“most people are perfectly afraid of silence”
“I don't think nudity is a bad thing, I don't think people should be embarrassed about their bodies, and I don't mind whipping it out.”

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