"These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!"

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Source : Aristophanes (1954). “Lysistrata: an English version by Dudley Fitts”

Aristophanes

#Impossible Quotes #Poet Quotes

“I believe in the power of the human spirit.”

Source : "'I Am Malala' - A Conversation between Malala Yousafzai and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim". Interview with Jim Yong Kim, www.worldbank.org. October 11, 2013.
“Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.”
“Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.”

Source : "The Cassell Dictionary of Regrettable Quotations". Book by David Milsted, 1999.
“I love metaphor the way some people love junk food.”
“I couldn't take much more of this. Being the object two men competed for wasn't as glamorous as it sounded in the movies. The two men who both wanted one hundred percent of my time weren't dashing, international playboys. They were undead and surprisingly immature, considering the youngest was just over a hundred years old.”

Source : Jennifer Armintrout (2008). “Blood Ties Bundle: Blood Ties Book One: The Turning\Blood Ties Book Two: Possession\Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes\Blood Ties Book Four: All Souls' Night”, MIRA
“She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own.”
“I discover vision, not as a 'thinking about seeing,' to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another's gaze.”
“Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.”

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