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“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”
Source : Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
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“I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.”
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“Mortal birth is a boon to which only those spirits who kept their first estate are eligible.”
Source : James E. Talmage (2012). “Articles of Faith: Being a Consideration of the Principal Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, p.350, Lulu.com
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“If I was killed in prison. That would be a blessing right now.”
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“It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty.”
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“There was after all no mystery in the end of love, no mystery but the mystery of love itself, which was large certainly but as real as grass, as natural and unaccountable as bloom and branch and their growth.”
Source : John Crowley (2015). “Little, Big”, p.487, Hachette UK
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“All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may give an increasingly faithful picture of the poem they translate, yet they will never give the inner meaning of the original.”
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“I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.”
