"The winds awaken, the leaves whirl round, Our cheeks are pale, our hair is unbound, Our breasts are heaving, our eyes are agleam, Our arms are waving, our lips are apart...."

-- William Butler Yeats

#Eye Quotes #Wind Quotes #Hair Quotes

“I may not know the weight of those things, but I could feel the weight of that one, so I kept it to myself. You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume you're asking them to feel sorry for you. I suppose it's why you feel so far away from everyone, in the end; anything you can think of to tell them just ends up making them feel terrible.”
“These are the decisions we make that lead us to where we are today.”
“Here was my first lesson on the resolutely maintained untidiness and ill-health of the English upper orders. In baggy evening dress and old before their time, they displayed gapped and tangled teeth in loosely open mouths. Gently shedding dandruff, they lurched across the lawn. When they stood at the bar they looked like Lee Trevino Putting.”
“In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been based upon financial sacrifice, not gain. Even in Athens, a large part of the 7,000 citizens who participated regularly in assemblies were farmers who had to give up several days' work to go into town to talk and listen.”
“The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.”
“I've never stunned anyone except in our D.A. lessons," said Luna, sounding mildly interested. "That was noisier than I thought it would be.”
“Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy?”
“There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.”

Source : The Twilight Zone (television show), 4 Mar. 1960

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