"A stranger's rose is but a thorn."

-- I. L. Peretz

#Rose Quotes #Stranger Quotes

“I have a couple of questions," he said. "Do, please, go ahead." "My first one is for Yassen Gregorovich." He turned to the Russian. "Why are you working for this lunatic?" "I sometimes think that I was richer when I was eight years old than most people will be in their lifetime!" "Do we have to listen to this?" Alex asked.”
“You know, they say that there is a part of the human chest that it you strike it hard enough, it makes the personâ€™s heart explode. This sounds like such a lie that I have to believe itâ€™s the truth. If I were science, Iâ€™d never tell anyone where this place is. If I were science, Iâ€™d have named this place after you.”

Source : Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz (2013). “Everything Is Everything”, p.68, SCB Distributors
“Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.”

Source : Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.11, Open Road Media
“In the next decade, we need to think and act like revolutionaries. We have to innovate, not merely imitate. We will succeed not be following the footsteps of the incumbent, but by introducing new dimensions into play. We need Singaporeans who can lead the way in creating new wealth for our economy.”
“Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.”
“Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.”
“In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable to certain laws of conventional propriety and honor, has for its object simply the gratification of its appetites, and frowns with quite a conservative air on all new inventions, all untried experiments in iniquity.”
“I think my Italy career is over - it's only right they begin a new era without me. Besides, you have to run a lot under Conte!”

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