"If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy..." 469"

-- Hilary Mantel

#Joy Quotes #Degrees Quotes #Impulse Quotes

“Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and I wish he would have left at least one. Saint Patrick made a name for himself by running the snakes out of Ireland, leaving the place vulnerable to rodent infestation. This business of making saints out of men who exterminate their fellow creatures has got to stop. All I'm saying is, it's starting to get a little lonely up here at the top of the food chain.”
“A plant is only worth growing if it looks good when it is dead.”
“I travel a lot to promote the perfumes and to do the commercials.”
“I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.”

Source : T.S. Eliot (1950). “The Cocktail Party”
“I'm a huge supporter of women. What I'm not is a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women's movement â€” especially when walking behind it.”
“I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.”

Source : Interview with Randy Shulman, www.metroweekly.com. June 7, 2006.
“Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.”

Source : "Approaching God : How to Pray". Book by Steve Brown (p. 94), 1995.
“To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.”

Source : Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.10, Open Road Media

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