"Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules."

-- Ninon de L'Enclos

#Powerful Quotes #Gentleness Quotes

“But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious problem with which we were intimately and passionately concerned... There was a time when Free Love versus Catholic Morality was a question of as much importance to our hot bodies as if a pistol had been clapped to our heads. Further back, there were times when we wondered with all our souls, what the world was, what love was, what we were ourselves.”
“Kaka beat Fletcher to the ball, and headed it past Heinze as the Argentine sought to close him down. Heinze could still have dealt with the problem, but, inexplicably, Patrice Evra came flying in like a runaway TGV. Heinze was flattened, Fletcher was so shocked that he stopped to rubber-neck, and Kaka strolled on and rolled the ball past Van der Sar. Evra's nightmare of a half continued when he crazily got himself cautioned for dissent, so removing Ferguson's one remaining first-choice defender from the away leg. Madness.”
“I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.”
“Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.”
“You can put a dog in a scene and everyone's going to be better, I guarantee it. And if they're not better, just shoot the dog.”
“At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.”
“I see these conferences as a good way to have a break from the day-to-day, learn about some new tech, polish up on some old skills and hopefully have some fun also. They're also good as they show my company is prepared to invest in my skillset.”
“You! You are so lucky you're dead.”

Source : Kat Richardson (2009). “Greywalker”, p.114, Penguin

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