"The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real"

-- Victor Hugo

#Real Quotes #Soul Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs.”
“I would just as likely be doing soccer practice as filming commercials.”
“In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.”
“When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!”
“I had been in Chicago for 22 years, and my wife and I didn't want to see another Chicago winter. Its a wonderful town but the winters are brutal. My wife and I are both east coast people and we wanted to live someplace a little bit warmer but didn't want to live way down south. So Delaware seemed like a good compromise.”

Source : Interview with Scott Preston, www.cincygroove.com. June 4, 2008.
“A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong”
“I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.”
“Each of us has something within us which won't be denied, even if it makes us scream aloud to die. We are what we are, that's all. Like the old Celtic legend of the bird with the thorn in its breast, singing its heart out and dying. Because it has to, its self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it.”

Source : Colleen McCullough (2013). “The Thorn Birds”, p.610, Head of Zeus

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