"You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor."

-- Lillie Langtry

#Believe Quotes #Population Quotes #Towns Quotes

“Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to the choice, but because there is an advantage to everyone making the same choice.”
“The only census of the senses, so far as I am aware, that ever before made them more than five, was the Irishman's reckoning of seven senses. I presume the Irishman's seventh sense was common sense; and I believe that the possession of that virtue by my countrymen-I speak as an Irishman.”
“Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.”
“I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty.”
“9/11 was not an act of war. It was a criminal act. It was a simple. Criminal act by a bunch of lunatic fanatic violent people who needed to be tracked down and apprehended and tried exactly as you would with any other lunatic violent person, like we do with our own domestic terrorists, like the guy who bombed the Oklahoma federal building.”
“Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.”
“I took a chance with my heart and I feel it taking over”
“To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.”

Source : Denis de Rougemont (1983). “Love in the Western World”, p.285, Princeton University Press

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