"We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us."

-- Ovid

#Life Changing Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Desire Quotes

“People come up to me... concerned... that I'll reproduce.”
“We were meant to do more than make sure that all of our needs are fulfilled and all our desires are satisfied. We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.”
“Neurotics, who cause less distress to themselves and their neighbours than those in the other category, are at war with their own natures. Their right hands are in conflict with their left. Psychotics, and it is those who commit purposeless crimes and prefer death to life, are at war with their environment. Right and left hands strike against the womb that carries them.”
“However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.”

Source : Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov (2012). “The Art of the Middle Game”, p.81, Courier Corporation
“Per capita availability of good, potable water is diminishing in all developed and developing countries.”

Source : Marq de Villiers (2001). “Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I have a lot of great memories, but I can't imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.”
“All scientific work is incomplete - whether it be observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge. That does not confer upon us a freedom to ignore the knowledge we already have, to postpone action that it appears to demand at a given time. Who knows, asks Robert Browning, but the world may end tonight? True, but on available evidence most of us make ready to commute on the 8:30 next day.”

Source : "The Environment and Disease: Association or Causation?" by Austin Bradford Hill, 1965.
“But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day, Nor ever once from the church to stray.”

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