"What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far."

-- Leon Wieseltier

#Commitment Quotes #What Matters Quotes #Obsession Quotes

“NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.”
“What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do? We've all been there- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her. The little things she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes or the way she chews her gum. Pretty soon what you like, what you changed, what you don't like, blends together like a watercolor in the rain.”
“The way to happiness is much, much easier to travel with people one can trust.”
“Life, he decided, was for living, not for having, and he wanted to experience every moment that he could.”
“I'm really glad that Italy went out, they were playing boring football. (on Euro 2004)”
“I like edgy but classic looks - like Chanel mixed with Alexander McQueen. My personal style is edgier. My closet is just black, gray, and white. Im more comfortable in darker colors and leather jackets.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.”

Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Literature and Life”, p.38
“That's a question you'd have to present to people in the White House.”

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