"Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another."

-- William Butler Yeats

#Doe Quotes #Isolated Quotes

“They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.”
“All I can say about my mind is that, like a fire carefully laid by a good housemaid, it is one that any match will light ...”

Source : Margot Asquith (1933). “More Memories”
“The critical question for our generationâ€”and for every generationâ€” is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ were not there?”
“Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults.”

Source : Interview with Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2006.
“I adore not being me. I'm not very good at being me. That's why I adore acting so much.”
“The apprentice realist uses line as a net to capture his prey, an imitation of reality. But soon he becomes enchanted with line as a thing. It becomes a servant of his pleasure.”
“But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?”
“Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness”

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