"The world demands that you work for it, make families, provide, take no time to listen to your own heart beating."

-- Bell Hooks

#Heart Quotes #World Quotes #Demand Quotes

“It was the strangest sensation, fallin' in love. 'Bout the only thing I compare it to would be jumpin' off a big cliff. Once you're past the edge, there ain't no particular reason to be graspin' for a line a safety. You just keep on fallin' anyhow, so you might as well enjoy it the whole way down.”
“I looked around and we were about a mile-and-a-half from land, and I thought, 'OK, I'm going to drown now.' And then I started to flail out and panic. I gradually calmed down and I got home. But the reality was that in that moment I was panicking and I feel like that to me was the clue about Ripley, that Ripley constantly finds himself out of his depth in the film and then reacts very, very badly.”
“We need to return to the cosmopolitanism of Alexandria of yore, and marry that with the tolerance and democracy of Europe today”
“An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.”
“America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.”
“Now [in 2016] I have the highest turnout in the state of Minnesota. And Minnesota is the highest turnout state in the country.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“It is hard to tell if capital punishment has such an effect. And even if, in some contexts it has (such as in the American South with a very high incidence of murder), this effect may very well go away if a decent welfare state was replaced for the existing social order.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Art is supposed to punch you in the brain, and it's supposed to stay punched.”

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