"If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you."

-- William Tecumseh Sherman

#Thanksgiving Quotes #Thank You Quotes #Years Quotes

“There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one's childhood more vividly than anything else I know.”
“I was one of those kids who always thought that we should know how the world works around us”
“So if we could not have love, my husband and I, then at least I could have alchemy.”

Source : Sarah Dunant (2012). “The Birth of Venus (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.252, Random House
“All you need is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts.”
“I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.”

Source : "'I'm lucky I'm not a pin-up': ITV's Broadchurch star Olivia Colman's own battle" by Halina Watts, www.mirror.co.uk. March 23, 2013.
“I once fisted two babies and then used the corpses as boxing gloves to fight off the grieving parents.”
“First we must see that we cannot will ourselves to be open because openness is our very nature. Any tiny residue of willing, of wanting to be open takes us away from what we are. Willing never goes beyond willing. So the only way to be free from this circle is to glimpse the truth that openness is the egoless state, that it is here and now”

Source : Jean Klein (2006). “I Am”, p.109, New Harbinger Publications
“In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.”

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