"I don't think we can ever learn much from ultra-sensitive, shifty faces, skilled in disguise, that hide themselves in lust, as beasts hide to die."

-- Georges Bernanos

#Thinking Quotes #Lust Quotes #Faces Quotes

“You're never going to please everyone - you might as well be who God made you to be.”
“It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy”
“But evil fortune has decreed, (The foe of mice as well as men) The royal mouse at last should bleed, Should fall ne'er to arise again.”

Source : Aaron Hill, James Cawthorn, Michael Bruce (1822). “The Poems of Hill, Cawthorn, and Bruce”, p.308
“If you go around a time when you're hungry, around mealtime, then you have a desperate search to find something to eat and you have this interplay between approach and avoidance. You go in a place, you smell, if it doesn't smell so good you go to the next place, you look at all the people, they're happily eating, and then you choose that place. So having to reconnoiter, having to go on a kind of treasure hunt for food is one of my favorite things.”
“Someone has said the best nursing home is the U.S. Senate.”
“The account of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as the manuscripts are inaccurately designated, and of the half a century of intense research that followed, is in itself a fascinating as well as an exasperating story.”

Source : "The Dead Sea Scrolls in English". Book by Geza Vermes (Introduction, p. 1), 1962.
“To reject the word is to reject the human search.”
“That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door.”

Source : Edith Pattou (2014). “North Child”, p.16, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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