"There's no getting blood out of a turnip."

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Source : Frederick Marryat (1857). “Japhet, in Search of a Father ... A new edition”, p.13

Frederick Marryat

#Blood Quotes #Vegetables Quotes #Turnips Quotes

“I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and avoid.”
“I loved the feeling of talking and having somebody really listen to what I have to say. It was like a high or something.”

Source : Jenny Han (2010). “The Summer I Turned Pretty”, p.142, Simon and Schuster
“The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.”

Source : Sir William Blackstone (1794). “Commentaries on the laws of England”, p.128
“The myths and legends about Faerie are many and diverse, and often contradictory. Only one thing is certain - that nothing is certain. All things are possible in the land of Faerie.”
“Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It's - for many people it's the height of, what they see, of ecstasy and poetry is in their sexual encounters. And furthermore, personality - human personality does not end in the bedroom, but persists.”
“One of the basic philosophical tenets of conservatism - which says that the more power devolves from the federal government to the states, the greater individual freedom grows - is just flatly contradicted by crucial junctures in the country's life, most conspicuously in the 1860s and 1960s, when it's been the federal government that's interceded against the states to secure individual freedom.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Where Attention goes Energy flows; Where Intention goes Energy flows!”
“I have earned my disillusionment.”

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