"the possession of power brings on madness."

-- Ariana Franklin

#Power Quotes #Madness Quotes #Possession Quotes

“That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.”
“The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous economic and social distress.”
“I totally ignore people who criticize me for coming to Israel, including whats-his-name [Roger Waters]. If he were to contact me, I would tell him to tell it where the sun don't shine.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Rock & Roll is so great, people should start dying for it. You don't understand. The music gave you back the beat so you could dream. A whole generation running with a Fender bass...The people just have to die for the music. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music? Die for it. Isn't it pretty? Wouldn't you die for something pretty?Perhaps I should die. After all, all the great blues singers did die. But life is getting better now.I don't want to die. Do I? - Lou Reed (1965-1968)”
“You steal the limelight, you steal the market share”
“You know, sometimes I swear the whole universe runs on irony.”

Source : Simon R. Green (2007). “The Man With the Golden Torc”, p.196, Penguin
“The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.”

Source : Quoted in Louisville Courier-Journal, 4 July 1913.
“How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!”

Source : Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1838). “Fireside Education ...”, p.102

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