"If you want to be loved, love."

-- Seneca the Elder

#Life Quotes #Love Life Quotes #Want Quotes

“Of course in war all madness's come out in a man. That is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.”
“Why in general, when you`re putting together a White House staff and putting together a good one, you`re looking for someone there who is not someone who`s going to be heavy-handed.”
“Ethan Wate: What I can't figure is, you go to church everyday, how do you believe in all of this and still believe in God? Amma: God created all things didn't he? Only man will decide which ones is mistakes. - Beautiful Creatures”
“The young are always in extremes.”

Source : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.62
“Sometimes you're traveling a highway, the only road you've ever known and wham! A semi comes from nowhere and rolls right over you. Sometimes you dont wake up. But if you happen to you know things will never be the same. Sometimes that's not so bad. Sometimes lives instersect, no rhyme, no reason, except, perhaps, for a passing semi.”
“What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.”
“We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.”
“An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion - you feel these things in your muscle and bones, not just in your mind.”

Source : William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.209, Delacorte Press

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