"The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch."

-- Iris Murdoch

#Sweet Quotes #Humility Quotes #Past Quotes

“There is nothing scarier than being â€˜the designer of the moment,â€™ because the moment ends.”
“Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.”
“Mummy always wanted the five children, and she knew she couldn't look after them all because she was this absolutely glorious woman who loved going to parties and going to the races, and she just didn't have time.”

Source : "The gentle art of showing off". Interview With Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2005.
“The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward.”
“Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared excellence, in body and mind, in act and thought?”

Source : "The Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles". 429 BC.
“When someone succeeded in quickly making a lot of money in America, people said he had made his fortune.”
“We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers - which formed the basis of the constitution written at our nation's founding - null and void.”
“The first and foremost requisite of a good football player is that he must have a burning desire to play the game. There is absolutely no substitute for this.”

Source : Frank Leahy (1949). “Notre Dame Football: The T Formation”

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