"A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you."

-- Khaled Hosseini

#Mother Quotes #Heart Quotes #Men Quotes

“He was the most perfectly formed man she'd ever imagined. He was movie stars, men in underwear commercials, guys at the gym, the construction worker in the red T-shirt who'd whistled at her but she'd pretended she hadn't heard; he was the men in three-piece suits whose brains were as sexy as their bodies; he was lazy, indolent seventeen-year-old boys whose muscles bulged out of their clothes, rodeo stars, and those smooth-cheeked, eyeglassed men who held their children tenderly. He was all of them.”

Source : Jude Deveraux (2012). “Sweet Liar”, p.255, Simon and Schuster
“I really do know football.”
“I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.”

Source : Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”
“Well, I'm somebody who is just living ...living life, and if I get frustrated by something, then I like to try to put it right.”
“Listen with your gut, not your head.”
“Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines his talent as a worker and his worth as a man. Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity. There is no standard of personal dignity except independence.”
“The struggle of our people for freedom has progressed to the form where all of us must take a stand either for or against the freedom of our people You are either with Your People or against them. You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.”

Source : Speech in San Francisco, 1968
“I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kate Clinton from Sep 22, 2015

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