"The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness."

-- Honore de Balzac

#Couple Quotes #Passion Quotes #Hazards Quotes

“There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.”

Source : George Jacob Holyoake (1850). “The History of the Last Trial by Jury for Atheism in England: A Fragment of Autobiography, Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney General and the British Clergy”, p.37
“The chances we take, knowing no better than to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in... protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips.”
“I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life.”
“Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.”
“I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought is more robust (in its respect for the unknown, the epistemic humility) than the modern post-Enlightenment naÃ¯ve pseudoscientific autism. Thus my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness and philistinism”
“I don't try to be anything. I just want to play my game.”
“When you cast away all your greed and fixation in adversity, you can find unexpected strength.”
“We never hid anything from the kids. I feel whole again, I really do. I've told them, 'Mommy's boo-boo is much better now.'”

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