"The middle age of buggers is not to be contemplated without horror."

--

E. M. Forster

#Age Quotes #Horror Quotes #Middle Quotes

“There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.”

Source : Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1960). “Her”, p.24, New Directions Publishing
“And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.”
“The greatest failure in life is the failure to participate in life.”
“If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.”
“We do have a Godly heritage in America, but we have been robbed - robbed by the 3 percent.”
“There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.”
“If we imagine that God is somehow punishing us, then we will live our lives in desperation and in fear that we are somehow avoiding displeasing God. The difficulty with that is as many ideas about how to displease and how to please God, as there are hairs on your head.”
“Can you let me go to hell the way I want to?”

Source : "Fictional character: Wild Bill Hickok". TV series "Deadwood", 2004-2006.

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