"Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close."

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John Ruskin

#Dawn Quotes #Sun Quotes #Beginning Of Life Quotes

“I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.”
“Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the same fish alive; a number of subtle explanations were offered to him. He then pointed out that it does not.”

Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.108, A&C Black
“The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.”
“The laws of decency enforce themselves.”
“You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that does not mean the filmmaker has to suffer in order to show the suffering. Stories should have the suffering, not the people.”
“One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed.”
“But it's not enough to be in love. It's about how you spend your days, what you do together, who you choose as friends, and most of all it's what work you do ... Better to break both our hearts now than watch them wither away over time.”

Source : Helen Simonson (2010). “Major Pettigrew's Last Stand”, p.380, A&C Black
“Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.”

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