"Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment."

-- Mark Twain

#Punishment Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Law Quotes

“Scott-there's nothing in the world I want but you-and your precious love. All the material things are nothing. I'd just hate to live in a sordid, colorless existence-because you'd soon love less-and less-and I'd do anything-anything-to keep your heart for my own-I don't want to live-I want to love first and live incidentally.”
“I hope my twin brother will look exactly like me but more sporty.”
“And he who is forever talking about enemies / Is himself the enemy!”

Source : Christopher Logue (2015). “War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad”, p.215, Faber & Faber
“I think you have to proactively seek out things that inspire you and consume as much of those things as possible.”
“We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.”
“Telling stories, making them come alive is what makes me come alive. So I try to live a life where sharing this vital search of inspiration is a must.”
“So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight.”
“The cruelest form of death, I have no doubt, is not physical death. Rather it is that public death which comes from the killing of ideas about God.”

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