"For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting."

-- Plutarch

#Inspirational Quotes #Mind Quotes #Analogies Quotes

“As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.”
“The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.”

Source : London Daily Telegraph, October 19, 1989.
“When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.”
“The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers us like magnetism, a spirit torque. This is how one becomes undone by a smell, a word, a place, the photo of a mountain of shoes. By love that closes its mouth before calling a name.”

Source : Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.15, A&C Black
“I think we can all agree that sleeping around is a great way to meet people.”
“But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.”
“Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.”
“I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did!”

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