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“I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love.”
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“Beyond fashion and its demands, there are higher and more pressing laws, principles superior to fashion, and unchangeable, which under no circumstances can be sacrificed to the whim of pleasure or fancy, and before which must bow the fleeting omnipotence of fashion. These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by reason, by Christian morality.”
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“In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.”
Source : CARLOS CASTANEDA (1972). “Journey to Ixtlan”
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“This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.”
Source : Jane Hirshfield (2011). “Of Gravity & Angels”, p.36, Wesleyan University Press
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“Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth.”
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“The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.”
Source : Fisher Ames (1809). “Works of Fisher Ames, compiled by a number of his friends”, p.384
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“One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.”
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“The paper does not provide the exact number of penises eaten by ducks, but the author says there have been enough over the years to prompt the coining of a popular saying: 'I better get home or the ducks will have something to eat.”
Source : Mary Roach (2009). “Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex”, p.192, W. W. Norton & Company
