"... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance."

-- Ellen Glasgow

#Romance Quotes #Literature Quotes #Innocence Quotes

“[Donald] Trump: he'd probably declare in Hiroshima that he'd nuke half of Asia if it would help the West to retain its control over the world. At least one would not harbor any false hopes.”
“Urban survival rule 22: Never annoy an armed man.”
“The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.”
“Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“After doing an honest evaluation of myself, I recognize that there are certain issues that I need to work on. Like everyone, I have my flaws, and I do not want to be one of those people that is afraid to admit and address those flaws.”
“We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.”
“You don't want to live in the past. Everything in life is in the future. You don't want to continue to be buried in the past.”
“The doctrine of foods is of great ethical and political significance. Food becomes blood, blood becomes heart and brain, thoughts and mind stuff. Human fare is the foundation of human culture and thought. Would you improve a nation? Give it, instead of declamations against sin, better food. Man is what he eats [Der Mensch ist, was er isst].”

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