"If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions."

-- Malcolm Bradbury

#Suggestions Quotes #Ten Commandments Quotes

“He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.”
“If I am proud of anything, it is that I have been granted the privilege of living in the land which God promised our forefathers to give us, as it is written.”
“Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle.”

Source : Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont “Beauty and the BeastLa Belle et la Bête English-French Parallel Text Edition”, Lulu.com
“My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.”
“And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.”
“In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.”
“Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?”
“Without the story - in which everyone living, unborn and dead, participates - men are no more than bits of paper blown on the cold wind.”

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