"When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!"

-- E. M. Forster

#Hands Quotes #Shields Quotes #Faces Quotes

“As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,.”
“If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.”
“The three greatest composers are Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. All the others are cretins.”
“Not only does inspiration from the Lord compensate for want of facts; it also induces men by self-discipline, to conform in their personal conduct and in their dealings one with another to the highest standards they know. In other words, it gives men the capacity which distinguishes wisdom from knowledge.”
“We all got a hillbilly bone down deep inside.”

Source : Song: Hillbilly Bone, Album: Hillbilly Bone, 2010
“I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.”
“Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what.”
“When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment, the flickering light of it, in a green field, his mouth on yours. He means the stretching of that moment. But forever isn't bright; it isn't like that. Forever is cold and hard and final.”

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