"My days â€“ the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood â€“ have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In this my native land â€“ in the land of my sires â€“ I am degraded without fault as an alien and an outcast."

-- Daniel O'Connell

#Flower Quotes #Land Quotes #Faults Quotes

“To love is everything: love is God.”
“Well?' Jasper said when Mairelon did not reply. 'Who are you?' 'No, no,' Mairelon said. 'I asked you first. I also, if you recall, asked how you found this place and what you intend to do here, and you haven't told me that, either.' 'We might ask you the same thing,' Jasper retorted. 'You might, but I don't recommend it,' Mairelon said. 'You'll get a reputation as a poor conversationalist if you all can do is repeat what other people say to you.”
“Do you have children? she asked. No. Why? The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.”

Source : Alessandro Baricco (2004). “Without Blood”, p.40, Canongate Books
“It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what are commonly called his 'natural, inherent, inalienable rights.'”
“The bad-boy label is just an assumption.”
“I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.”
“Darwin speculated that â€œmusic tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are excited not only by love, but by strong passions of jealousy, rivalry, and triumphâ€ and that speech arose, secondarily, from this primal music.”
“I do tend to like movies that challenge me, professionally. That's mostly on a smaller scale, when you have one or two or five actors, and it's all about the acting and not the camera.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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