"I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame And every time I pass that way I always hear my name"

-- Bob Dylan

#Flames Quotes #Names Quotes #Temptation Quotes

“In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?”
“Philip says to fear me. Do you have any idea how afraid I am of him?”

Source : Linnea Sinclair (2005). “Gabriel's Ghost”, p.224, Spectra
“Near the top of the market, investors are extraordinarily optimistic because they've seen mostly higher prices for a year or two. The sell-offs witnessed during that span were usually brief. Even when they were severe, the market bounced back quickly and always rose to loftier levels. At the top, optimism is king, speculation is running wild, stocks carry high price/earnings ratios, and liquidity has evaporated. A small rise in interest rates can easily be the catalyst for triggering a bear market at that point.”
“It is the search for beauty...That is what it is. We find ourselves on this earth--gods and men--and we know that it is beautiful. That is one of the few things we understand--beauty; because it is there, in the world, and we can see it all about us. We want beauty. It requires our love. It just does.”
“Newton found that a star, examined through a glass tarnished by smoke, was diminished into a speck of light. But no smoke ever breathed so thick a mist as envy or detraction.”

Source : Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”
“Sometimes people think that if you're always helping people up and never hit someone with a hard foul, you're automatically a good sport. I don't believe that.”
“until I have been able to bury my head so deep in dear London that I can forget that I have ever been away I am inconsolable.”
“If you want to work consistently, you have to be a team player.”

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