"I wonder if those experts who tell us that our sexual appetite is the strongest know what real thirst feels like; I can imagine the desire for water driving someone to commit a crime to which sexual desire could never drive them."

-- Dervla Murphy

#Real Quotes #Water Quotes #Desire Quotes

“The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.”
“patience is an integral part of talent.”

Source : Vicki Baum (1964). “It was all quite different: the memoirs of Vicki Baum”
“Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? Two hundred thousand”

Source : "Landrieu blasts Beck" by Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 29, 2010.
“The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and secrets, to live with the terrible uncertainty that necessarily attends the construction of a self.”
“Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.”
“By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
“A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.”
“I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch.”

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