"There's that wonderful line in Measure for Measure. I forget which of the characters has committed adultery and is going to die. He looks at his hand and says, "How could this die?" That's the joke. I've always thought, and this is nothing new, that we don't really believe we die. I think you're going to die, because I know that's what happens but I can't imagine I'm going to die."

-- Lore Segal

#Believe Quotes #Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one.”
“The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.”

Source : Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.396
“It's all about who your team is and who your people are.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
“Debt is always repaid, either by the borrower or by the lender.”
“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.”
“Tomorrow you're all going to wake up in a brave new world, a world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones, created in a stem-cell research lab run by homosexual doctors who sterilize their instruments over burning American flags. Where tax-and-spend Democrats take all your hard-earned money and use it to buy electric cars for National Public Radio, and teach evolution to illegal immigrants. Oh, and everybody's high!”
“Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.”
“Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.”

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