"And what I thought, every time I thought about my father, every time his name came up, was quite simply: I WANT TO KILL YOU. I wanted to be more mature, more reasonable, I wanted to have a big, fat, forgiving heart that could contain all this rage and still find room for kind, beneficent love, but I didn't have it in me. I just didn't."

-- Elizabeth Wurtzel

#Father Quotes #Heart Quotes #Names Quotes

“I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up.”
“I took my life in my hands and social media has just helped me do that more.”
“I live within the vivid colors of my imagination, soaring with rainbow-feathered birds, racing the desert winds on horseback, wrapped in ancient tribal jewels, dancing with mythical tigers in steamy jungles.”

Source : "Marin County artist Laurel Burch dead at 61 of rare bone disease" by Heather Maddan, www.sfgate.com. September 23, 2007.
“It is quite certain that, if from childhood men were to begin to follow the first intimations of conscience, honestly to obey them and carry them out into act, the power of conscience would be so strengthened and improved within them, that it would soon become, what it evidently is intended to be, "a connecting principle between the creature and the Creator.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 156), 1895.
“Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.”
“I did things I should not have done. But people make mistakes, especially at my age, when you feel you are so smart, but in fact you are an asshole.”
“It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.”
“You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done.”

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