"Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I."

-- Phil Ochs

#Men Quotes #Jail Quotes #Gone Quotes

“Well, (Michael) Jordan was definitely one of the kings of the game. There's no question that he was one of the more dominant figures. If you look at the top ten players of all time, he was certainly one of the most dominant guys.”
“Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesnâ€™t make you who you are.Â It is the rest of your story â€“ who you choose to be.”

Source : "Fictional character: Soothsayer". "Kung Fu Panda 2", www.imdb.com. 2011.
“Strength is for service, not status”
“To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.”
“But boy, right away it is fun to play around with the Paintbox program.”
“If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person.”
“Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. The unchecked stream flows smoothly down its appointed channels into a calm well being.”
“While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her â€“ for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil.”

Source : Octave Mirbeau (2016). “Torture Garden”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

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