"Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils."

-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Glimpse Quotes #Veils Quotes #Faces Quotes

“The quest for truth must be carried out by each person individually. It is like breathing, something which no one else can do for us.”
“The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence.”
“If you can find a company that can get away with raising prices year after year without losing customers (an addictive product such as cigarettes fills the bill), you've got a terrific investment.”
“He tasted like sin made into wine: dark, heady, and impossible to resist.”
“I've always been an ironic dreamer, unfaithful to my inner promises. Like a complete outsider, a casual observer of whom I thought I was, I've always enjoyed watching my daydreams go down in defeat. I was never convinced of what I believed in. I filled my hands with sand, called it gold, and opened them up to let it slide through. Words were my only truth. When the right words were said, all was done; the rest was the sand that had always been.”
“Freedom does not mean doing what you can get away with, doing what you please. It means, instead, having the opportunity to do what you ought to do--for family and for community and for humanity as a whole.”

Source : Alan Keyes' Address at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, California, www.keyesarchives.com. March 4, 2000.
“Hurried business is bad business.”

Source : Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.9, Granta Books
“Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.”

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